Saturday, August 22, 2009

SFO-DAM; Dimashq day 1

Due to technical difficulties, I won't be able photos to the blog for a few days.  Below are a few bullets from the first couple days of my trip:

1.  The TSA and airport bars are in cahoots.  I know this because there didn't used to be a decent bar directly after the security gates, and the security line didn't normally take an hour to get through.  Now, there is a packed, upscale bar behind TSA, and the security line regularly runs over an hour long.  Coincidence, or coinspiracy?  Business idea:  Patron shots booth after the pat-down/microwave scanner station.

2.  Ordered an iced cafe Americano at the Amman airport; the water used therein was definitely not Americano.  Drank anyway, with predictable results.

3.  Proferred a mandatory 'tip' to check luggage through from Amman to Damascus.  Unlike the crapshoot-odds luggage situation in the US, the 'tips' system offers a direct correlation between size of said tip and odds of luggage arriving.  Or so I was to understand.  Either way, the luggage arrived only marginally rifled-through, save some toiletries. 

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