... in more ways than one ... although "not all of me" arrived at the same time.   Yes, here in am in Florida ... having trekked from Angola to Houston to here ... Tuesday & Wednesday; no problems on flights - just the normal jetlag.  BUT, I had an extremely complex derivation of suitcases (one) to check ... made it out of Angola ... made it into my hands in Houston ... turned it over to the very "trustworthy" hands of Continental Express ... with 4 hours for them to move the bag 1 kilometer to the plane ... guess the quantity and time period was too tight (not enough degrees of freedome) ...

I arrived in Tampa ... what, no luggage?  Off to the service counter, with claim ticket in hand.  Knowing that this was 21st Century America I was confident that a few clicks of the button from the man behind the counter would be able to proudly proclaim the precise location of my suitcase ... and how they would rectify this situation.

WRONG ... seems Continental Express (don't know about other carriers) do not scan the barcodes on the suitcases ... anywhere in the transit process.  So, they have/had absolutely no idea where my luggage was ... and would never have any idea where it was until it poppod up "somewhere" unclaimed .... hmmm, makes me wonder what happens if someone had taken it from the carousel (either intentionally or on purpose) and took it home ... guess my luggage would be "delayed" forever .... and ever ... and ever ...

As luck would have it (thankfully) the suitcase was delivered in Tampa later in the day ... found "abandoned" ... logged into the "delayed baggage" system .... and ultimately delivered to me a 10pm Tampa time .... 3am Thursday Angola time .... Now ... I feel "normal" .... total travel time for me and my stuff ... ONLY approx 33 hours ...

Ah, nothing like 4.5 hours sleep ... wake up, shower/shave/etc, then I schlep off to the dentist to get some crown work done ... soon I will rush back to the Tampa airport for a flight to Nashville.  All going well, I'll be in the hotel there approx 9pm local time (3am ... again, for my body clock ) ..... wonder how "trustworthy" Southwest Airlines will be with my suitcase?

Now, what was that about the 21st Century?  Well, all is not doom and gloom, there is hope ... DHL does an excellent job of tracking packages .... over the last 2 months I have sent 3 packages overseas ... and I am able to track the packages EVERY step of the way ...

Enough blogging for now ... ciao ciao ...

BTW ... I miss Decy, Chely, Thasya .....