America: You Gotta Love it!

So no problems at airport security. In fact, this is the first time in over 5 years that I didn't get twenty questions at customs. I was through customs with my luggage in 20 minutes. A new record. Having said that, the nice Finnish girl that sat next to me had to go into a massive line for non-U.S. passport holders. Perhaps that is why tourism is falling. In fact, in all my travels, only Moscow made their visitors wait so long. Generally, European customs go quite quickly for everyone.

Ironically, then, it was on the European side where I experienced some delays. I was frisked twice (once in Prague, and once in London). The second frisking was a really good one. I haven't been touched like that by a man in quite some time. (Calm down, just a little joke there).

I was really curious what the deal with the liquids would be. What you can do is buy water at the duty free shop and then they seal it a transparent plastic bag. This increased my cost of water for the flight ten fold, but no big deal. You can bring your own fluids on board so long as they come in less than 100ml containers. It doesn't matter how much fluid is in the container, it is the size of the container that matters. So for instance, you can bring a full tube of toothpaste in a 100ml container, but if you bring a 200ml tube of toothpaste that only has 50ml of toothpaste remaining, it will be confiscated.

All and all, a very civilized and efficient trip. No complaints. (Except that water thing, sheesh!)