Travel diaries: Airport adventures and customs calamities 13 Articles

by Marilyn De Angelis Pennell

A Cross Country Journey in China with Big Red and the Blue Backpack What's big, red and a pain in the neck to lug around an airport? My new suitcase packed to overflowing and full of items that I never used on my first ...read more

by Vicki Niedzielska

Several years later, I still wonder if the poor boy manning the immigration counter at Sydney airport has forgotten the total trauma and "ground-swallow-me-up-now" embarrassment that ensued when he asked me where I had com...read more

by Sheree Zielke

Yes, I confess, I was once detained in Canada Customs for having Mexican contraband in my possession. My husband was with me, so he was also detained. And the worst thing, even we were surprised the stuff was in our suit...read more

by Marj Lefroy

Memories of jetBlue, February 2007 Ah, the jetBlue Valentine's Day debacle of 2007. Such memories. As one of those lucky enough to be a bit-player in this particular drama, it never ceases to amaze me that the airline s...read more

by Christine G.

February 11, 2006. ANCIENT AND MODERN COLLIDE In the security line at the Victoria, B.C. airport, I spotted a portly monk in a gray & black habit. He wore sandals on his bare feet. Instead of a tonsure, he had a buzz...read more

by Steve McCuaig

"The Hard Way" I was walking into the Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo at 4am for a 8am flight to Toronto, checking in excessively early so I could catch a quick snooze at the departure gate before my...read more

by Brian Chartier

Airort Security Eh? I was rushing to get to my gate. Flying out of Atlanta can be grueling at the best of times, but now it seems like rushing through a military base with all eyes upon you as you dash to catch a pl...read more

by Suzanne Feinberg

My husband and I landed at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, after a long tarmac delay but short flight from London's Heathrow. It was the last of four stops on our European adventure, and although we were weary by this point in o...read more

by Sarah Fisk

I groaned as I climbed out of my sister's white 1992 Ford Thunderbird in front of the small Springfield airport on the hazy Sunday morning. I had just spent four days visiting her at school, sleeping on her dorm room floo...read more

by Keri Rutherford

Writing an article and meeting a deadline is stressful. I'm not going to make this one. True to form, I have waited until the last minute, finding all sorts of important things to do such as counting the dust bunnie...read more

by Sheryl J. Miller

Let me just preface this by saying that the airport in Minneapolis/St. Paul is extremely large. I didn't really have the chance to experience it, in its entirety, on the way to Arizona. I landed there, but didn't have to s...read more

by The Travel Bugg

My apprehension had been at a rather high level as I prepared to visit for Belize. As my plane approached the airport in Belize City , the fact that a rather large cow was standing near the runway did nothing to dispel my...read more

by Karima King

Remember when traveling was fun? And easy? When I was a child, it was possible to just walk onto a plane. Admittedly, I lived in a small city with an even smaller airport; we didn't even have an x-ray machine. You walk...read more