Trying to Fly

Man, am I tired. We are in hour 2 of our layover in Minneapolis (MSP) with two more to go. Despite the airline computer's best efforts, we will be spending more time in the air than waiting in airports, but not by much. The airline staff are definitely colluding with us to achieve this goal. In Madison (MSN), we were the international flight standard 2.5 hours early for the flight to deal with TSA, but before we could even get in line the airline computer refused to recognize our visas. After an hour of hand-to-hand combat involving the entire front desk staff, the Delta desk was able to wrestle two seat vouchers for the flight that would get us through security and to the gate desk where they could assign us seats to LAX via MSP, who we were assured would not have this problem. Madison TSA are vastly improved in quality since our last attempt to breach their lines and we managed to quickly pass through with only a couple of comments on "new rules" and the usual searches. In Minneapolis (MSP), we have been playing hide-and-go-seek with the gate all over the airport as a broken plane is blocking the gate where ours was supposed to dock. It has not quite been like the end scene of Airplane but we have now visited every terminal here except F and we have over an hour left before the flight is supposed to leave... More at the next stop! -Rob :)