No Place Like Home

Back home again after flying almost 12,000 miles from Atlanta to Toronto to Munich to Athens, Greece, and back, not to mention the number of steps we walked daily.

These days everyone seems to have a watch or cellphone that gives you that information. Someone will announce, “Wow, today, we walked over four miles” which makes you feel tired immediately.

While there, we had a 5.3 earthquake and didn’t even feel it. Musta been when we were feeding our faces. Whew!

If you fly between major Canadian border airports and the United States, you will experience Pre-Clearance which means you will go through

Customs and Immigration in Canada instead of, say the Atlanta airport. It was strange to just walk over a painted red line in the floor and you were in the United States even though you were plainly still in the Toronto airport.

Also, lucky me, I was “Selected” for a full body search of me and my luggage, known as a SSSS. The agent had a hand-held device to detect explosives on the palms of my hands and bottom of my shoeless feet.

Then it was on to my luggage, digging through my dirty clothes, unzipping everything, having me take apart my cellphone. Real interesting!

So, it was a relief driving home from the Atlanta airport, over the Ocmulgee River, back in Jasper County, home really looked good.

Just in time to wish Jasper County Happy Easter and hoping that the hop hop hop Easter bunny stops at your house.