At D/FW, my luggage was checked with no problems.
On the return trip, the security people "swabbed" my luggage and an alarm went off. Supposedly anything that can be used to make a bomb will set it off. I was told by security that if a person sets his/her luggage down on a grassy area that has been fertilized recently, it can set the alarm off.
Anyway, to get on with it, the guys opened my suitcase which contained ALL my clothes as well as my 4 pc rod (in the tube), my vest (with 14 flyboxes), my lanyard (with all my sharp, pointy tools), and my waders. Now mind you, I was checking my luggage - not carrying it onboard.
After the security guy checked my rod tube and a couple of flyboxes, he realized that I had enough to stock a small fly shop and didn't open another flybox after the 3rd or 4th one. When his supervisor came over to see what was taking him so long, he said that he was just finishing up. The supervisor asked him specifically if he had opened and checked all the "little boxes". He told him that he had and started zipping everything back together.
The remainder of the trip home went without half a hitch (pun intended). Sure glad he didn't check the box with my Exploding Sculpins (again, pun intended).
- Gary
BTW, it was American.
- g~
At 10:47 AM 06/24/2003, you wrote:
---There's a travel reporter on the Washington Post who says that the solution to traveling post 9/11 is to ship your luggage to your destination, not carry it with you. It's less likely to get lost, damaged, stolen or cause delay. I had a set of Zeiss binoculars, a Mont Blanc Pen and a camera taken out of my checked baggage coming home from CA last year. Now I ship. The luggage gets there before me.
Just notify the people at your destination to expect it.
Steve, In Maryland
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