Thoughts on travel

Day one of the amazing ( not a) race:
We arrived at PDX airport at 8 am for our 9:30 flight to San Francisco, and onward to Taipei. There were some "issues" with our flight, namely that they expected a delay in departure. Given the fact that we had only an hour between our planned arrival in SFO and our departure to Taipei, this was worrying. The gate agent suggested a possible alternative which involved flying SFO to LAX then on to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. This was NOT ideal!
We waited as long as we could at the gate before finally giving in and rebooking our tickets as the flight was now an hour late, so it became evident that we would arrive at about the time we were supposed to be boarding our flight to Taipei.
Hope springs eternal , though, so in true amazing race fashion, we decided to walk all the way to the international terminal just on the off chance that the flight hadn't left. It had. So we hauled ourselves back to the domestic terminal for our LAX flight, which was also late.
We were still dragging all the luggage that we had intended to check.
We arrived in LA and took the shuttle to the international terminal. Since we had tickets in business class, we were able to avail ourselves of the Star Alliance lounge. However Jim couldn't get his liquids ( mosquito repellent )  through security, so he was stuck on the ther side trying to check his bag. Since our flight to Bangkok doesn't leave until midnight, there was no way to check a bag until much later. I couldn't bear the thought of hanging out in the lounge drinking wine while he waited in limbo, so I devised a plan. It involved buying empty travel size bottles into which we decanted our mosquito spray. This time he sailed through security, no problem! High five!
So now we wait to try to arrange two seats together in business class on Thai air, in true amazing race fashion. Wish us luck.
And I leave you with this quote that I read in the lounge as I wrote this:
"Live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry."