The Journey of thousands of miles starts with 3 hours sitting at your local airport.

I dropped off Legba and fought my way through confusing airport signs and rush hour traffic. Home by 5pm. Hour to go before the flight takes off and I can do some flight tracking.

Legba called and is still sounding in good spirits. He was able to find an outlet and send an email for the travel pages.

From Legba:

“The Flight leaves from Gate 25, but seating there is very full. Sitting at
gate 22…empty, free outlet, perfecto. The “show up early” turned out to
be a lie, probably meant to get me to spend more money at the airport. BA
counter person at baggage check-in said flight would be leaving ~8:15,
boarding 7:30, and I should head for security around 7. The actual
security only took 15 min or so. Appears I passed.

They have a tiny Borders store here. Got a cheap Kurt Vonnegut paperback.
It won’t brand me as an evildoer (I hope). Once I got past security, I
went to the local sports bar and got the last free table. Sat about 10minutes waiting for service. Ended up offering the other seats to a couple
from Portland, Mike and Donna. Nice folks, huge Suns fans.

They spotted a
Suns player walking by, and Mike got to shake his hand. Mike went to the
bar and got us drinks too. Big draft, not enough to be drunk, but enough
to take the edge off a bit.

Not sure how soon the actual boarding will start. Hopefully before too
terribly long. “