For what it's worth, I fucked myself big time on this trip … I'm still in the UK, regardless of the fact that my flight was supposed to leave yesterday. Suffice to say, I will NOT be planning any inter-EU travel for the weekend before my departure in the future, and that's enough said about [...]
In years past, when I visited the UK (which happens to be where I am now), I'd tell people where I was from, and they'd exclaim, "Alaska?!" as though they didn't realize you could actually get here from there, and then they'd ask one of a handful of questions: Is it really like Northern Exposure? [...]
United Airlines checks passengers with firearms through the 'oversized' baggage line. … I swear this saved me at least an hour on my check-in time. Smoking lounge! They have a freaking smoking lounge! Even when I quit again, I'll appreciate this in principle. Free Wi-Fi! (Hello SeaTac, are you listening?! You get sponsors to pay [...]
So yeah, if I'd been paying attention, I would have renewed my passport last summer. As of August 2007, all US passports have RFID chips embedded in them. For those of you not in the know, RFID tags are how libraries know when you walk out with an un-checked out book, how pet ID chips [...]
