Airline check-in with Air Canada was outstanding considering that we're a short overnight in Los Angeles and travelling on a Philippine Airlines that wasn't open for check-in. The self-check-in couldn't handle that and gave us baggage tags only to L.A. which would have given us the opportunity to spend our very short time in L.A. waiting for bags and bikes, lugging them around, checking them back in, and on top of that paying the extra charges for the bikes twice. However the Air Canada customer assistance agent had absolutely no problem fixing it all up so hopefully the next time we see the baggage will be when we get to Darwin.
The new super x-ray machines at YVR can't handle baggage as big as bike boxes so they had to be opened but that went well with the CTSA people being really good with tape and assistance to seal everything up again. Us going through security went just as well including my hips that always lead to the pat-down. The US Customs and Immigration and there too the agents were professional, courteous, and pleasant.
So now we are captive in the pre-screened area. First thing Ursula found was this mural depicting outdoor activities - You can see that she is ruefully looking at the surfboard and thinking of the two months of biking before we get to that part of Australia.
Welcome to our blog... we'll post our progress when we can, hopefully more in photos than words.
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