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I've had the pat down many times for loose skin. Always agree to doing it right there as I have no interest in going to any private room. It's usually over pretty fast. Once I finally did TSA precheck, I haven't had the big pat down very often, but sometimes still. It also decreased during the time I gained back weight. Guess the skin wasn't so loose anymore!

Greetings all

Sunny today but not like the Caribbean!. Liz that is indeed the best travel photo ever. You know how to live. How fun. Wheeee! Water taxi sounds like a hoot and looks like it too.

And Liz glad DD is getting needed treatment scheduled. It is all so nuts!

Went to the gym and did my walking. Not many people there which makes sense because it is a nice day and everyone sane is at the beach or forrest. After gym I picked up a few grocery items. Not much of interest at the deli which is just as well.

Lord what travel stories! How stupid is the no fly list? I am still not over having to take shoes off after that one guy tried to light his shoe. Now have PRE. Some years ago I was flying out of Omaha and the X-ray showed something suspicious so I got patted down all over including inner thighs as far as you can go. They offered to take me to a private room but I said no. Seems my loose skin after 100 pound weight loss looked like some clandestine item. Afterwards I told them that I had loose skin due to significant weight loss and that was what they were seeing and that they should adjust their protocol for such cir****tances. No doubt they ran out and did that. Not. The woman agent who did this was very professional but there were men agents leering in a creepy way. Yuck.

Not much else. DH is on his third episode of Ancient Aliens. Don't they ever run out of pyramids and weird stones?

DD some friends of mine went to Egypt a couple of years ago. They did fine but were in a tour group and said there were armed guards outside of hotels and that tourists were not permitted to go jogging for security reasons. So if you go it should be in an organized group. They did a hot air balloon over Valley of the kings which sounds spectacular. But all this stuff in the world gives one pause when considering any international travel. Serious stuff.

Paula that soup sounds great. Ultimate comfort food. We will have tastee sandwiches tonight. And they say all the Canadians are selling their Florida properties. Good time to shop.

Time to mix up epoxy and glue some art stuff. Yesterday was spray painting. I had no urge to do graffiti.

Diane S

128.1. Up a smidge. Hoping for some good bathroom time soon!

Busy day with church activities. And then home to try and figure out our internet mess. Changed location of our router very slightly to help with the picture on our ring doorbell and all went to hell. TV, computers, Alexa, DH?s X box all not working properly! A cluster F for sure! About half of it is in working order now! Some we may just give up on!

Made the Shepard?s pie soup again that we liked so well. Tomorrow will be fish tacos!

Yikes on all of the TSA horror stories!

Omg! What an ordeal. My DD, a senior in high school, all of 18, also got on some kind of watchlist. Luckily, she was never taken to a private room (I would have lost my mind if this happened when we were traveling together, and I'd probably still be incarcerated myself) She got pulled out of line for a pat down every time she flew for a couple of years, often asked to take her hair down because she had a thick top knot, or they would squeeze her hair. She went on a choir trip that spring to Europe, and she warned her friends and choir director this would happen. They thought she was kidding until they saw it at every single connection. No longer a problem, so somehow she got off the list.

But you having to disrobe without anyone giving you a definitive cause, this is why I feel we're in a no man's land in terms of due process with TSA and immigration. One would argue if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. I generally have held this belief: I am too unremarkable to draw attention. But with the increasing number of stories, I do feel uneasy. I'll keep traveling, but if I drove to Canada now, as I have done multiple times in my life, I would brace myself for shenanigans when I re-entered. And I'd plan to come back through Minnesota rather than Windsor/Detroit. And I really, really hope I'm wrong.

GOOD GRIEF! What a horrific series of events your Aussie sister has been through. Although are we sure that a green card will be sufficient at some point? And can you imagine how much worse her odds would be if she had darker skin and/or non-European features!