I know for me travel is no longer fun.
Getting through security at the airports is a pain. I have been taken to side rooms to be interrogated, full body scans, had to talk to 3 TSA Supervisors, had to remove my sweater down to my camisole and swabbed for explosives. I am 71 years old. Guess TSA thinks I fit a certain profile.
I have to add at least another hour to go through security. Because it is a given I will need it.
We had gone on a cruise to Alaska and wanted to take another one. But I really would rather not deal with all that we had to go through to go on the cruise. We had to go through Customs quite a bit. Because some of the places we visited were in the US and some in Canada. Canada went through everything thoroughly so the lines were long and took forever. We thought were going to miss our connecting flight.
And the Port when we got off the cruise was HORRIBLE. The cruise line had everyone"s luggage tagged according to when their planes were departing. If you had an early plane departure your luggage was taken off the ship first. The dock workers did not pay attention to the tags on the luggage. They just put the luggage wherever they wanted.
Then people started to panic. The luggage was in no order. So people were paying dock workers to help find their luggage. So then no additional luggage was being brought off the ship. The dock workers were making additional $$$ from people.
There was one bus at the terminal. No one was on it because no one could find their luggage. The additional buses were not sent to the terminal until the bus left. I guess the cruise line only pays for a certain amount of space for buses. I can just imagine a large group of people finally finding their luggage and then there only being one bus.
We finally landed at Philadelphia Airport. And got our luggage. My bag was soaked. My husband had packed bottles of liquor in our suitcases to even out the weight. I let my husband hear me all the way home. Of course the bottle of liquor broke in MY suitcase. Got home, opened the suitcase, the inside was dry. The only airport we encountered where there was rain was Philadelphia. So my suitcase must have sat in a puddle long enough to be saturated with water.
Not sure I want to go through that again. It is sad because the cruise itself was WONDERFUL.
One of the last times I flew. The airline lost my checked suitcase. I was going to a wedding. My suitcase had the dress for the Rehearsal Dinner, dress for Bride's breakfast and dress for Family Brunch the day after the wedding. Thankfully I ran out of room in my suitcase and the dress for the wedding was in my son's suitcase. So I had to wear the same dress for 3 days.
Since a kid, I had traveled quite a bit and liked going places and seeing different places. But it seems like there is so much "stuff" you now have to deal with. I think is it worth it.
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