Leaving for La La Land
Mount St Helens
After a jet lag induced sleepless night for the pair of us it was an early start to catch our flight to Los Angeles.
We took the Sky Train to the Airport which was quick and easy.
What wasn’t so simple was the security procedures required to travel to the States. First we had to fill in some landing cards (we were given a lollipop by the security guy for doing this though!) then we used the ‘self-check-in’ desk which asked us for nearly every detail about our lives.
The fun part really came when we had to go through passport control.
Very stone faced inspectors asked us all sorts of questions, double checking our dates and why we were travelling to LA.
For the first time ever we felt slightly uncomfortable with the invasion of privacy thing. We had our fingerprints scanned, presumably to be stored on some US database.
We know we’d rather feel safe flying and that if you’ve done nothing wrong it shouldn’t matter at all, but we couldn’t help but feel like we were now being watched where ever we went. Electronically.
My iPad continues to be a conversation starter, with no less than three people having a chat to us as soon as I whipped it out.
An unexpected bonus in the flight was a fantastically clear view of Mount St Helens - the volcano that erupted a few years back - amazing to see it from above.
Bizarrely, upon landing at LA we went through exactly the same stress as at Vancouver, Kels luggage appeared immediately and mine was last. Literally the very last, it landed on the belt about five minutes after all the others.
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