The first day of our trip was primarily consumed by travel, which I can say was largely without incident. The biggest hassle we had with airport security came from the telescope and although the telescope was of great interest to the security guards, they inspected it and then waved us through without seeming like the telescope could be a security violation. The flight and car ride to the hotel both were without incident.
Upon our arrival at the hotel, we did discover that the supermarket a few blocks away was the site at which Congresswoman Giffords was shot the day before. While the event and its ramifications were of great interest to me, in the interest of this blog I'll not comment on it further.
Tomorrow we are heading out to the desert museum, which I am looking forward to.
I think it's probably incredibly rare if not entirely rare for someone to come through the security line with a telescope, but I think they enjoyed our story!
ReplyDeleteWe had a variety of tools, instruments, and apparently people which interested security. Luckily we were intellegent about it, and gave ourselves plenty of time to get to the plane.
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