Made it!

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After my work leaving party I went home and packed - drunk - and so far don't seem to have missed anything vital... And what a great last day at work it was too, most amazing was that my colleagues had a whip-round and raised enough to buy me a digital SLR! Wow! I can't say a huge enough thank you for that.

So despite all my meticulous planning there was, of course, nothing I could do to prevent a flight delay. I ended up collecting my bag from the carousel at Chicago about 4 minutes before the flight to Austin took off from a different terminal... Oh well. I was only 4 hours late.

And this time I entered the USA what do I get a hard time from the immigration official about? Is it my visit to Iran? How about the time I went to Syria? Is it that I'm on a one-way ticket? No, none of these - this time he gets the hump because I have a visa instead of entering on the visa waiver scheme. WTF???? Oh, and I'm not sure he really liked purple hair. And possibly not the Flying Spaghetti Monster t-shirt.

Anyway, now I'm here and really enjoying doing absolutely nothing...

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Comments

[El]

Welll Done
Glad to hear that you made your flight from Heathrow. I wasn't sure that you would, given the ocean of alcohol imbibed. Hope that the hangover wasn't too bad on the plane. Have a fabulous time. Am not in the slightest bit jealous given the horrid weather and lack of daylight here at the moment. Loads of love El

[Graeme]

Immigration schmimmigration
Well done Matt! Just one more example of why I won't fly to or through the States. Bunch of crazies. The United States of Paranoia... Have fun...