final word from Sulawesi
July 27th 2009 Weird happening on the flight from Palu to Makassar: the airport Customs confiscated my two DEET insect repellant canisters because they were aerosols and therefore “dangerous”. They didn’t confiscate them from my hand-luggage, note, but from my check-in bag! This was the seventh plane I’ve been on this trip alone and I’ve been on countless others on other trips and this is the first tim
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