Comments | london1967: Bye bye (my) American Dream!

london1967

Bye bye (my) American Dream!

Sep 23, 2009 23:17

In the last couple of weeks I've been itching to book a holiday for February/March (as bobalone knows, since we discussed it at length over dinner).
Despite the winter being rather mild in London, what we miss here is the light and the sun.
Winter with its very short days can be a depressing affair, and I find it helps to have something to look forward to.

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holiday, u.s.

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paterson_si September 23 2009, 22:38:28 UTC

So let's go to Madeira. :)

london1967 September 23 2009, 22:59:06 UTC

What, again? OK!

paterson_si September 24 2009, 13:15:47 UTC

Sure, why not :)

erstexman September 23 2009, 23:06:08 UTC

Sorry to hear you had a hard time on your last visit. I must have missed somewhere this difficulty - did you post about it previously?

PS and Arizona in winter can be nice, as well as South Florida. OR relatively mild Texas...

:-)

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Re: PS and Arizona in winter can be nice london1967 September 24 2009, 16:13:34 UTC

It sure is!!

¡Viva España!

london1967 September 24 2009, 16:12:52 UTC

I did... click on the "memory" hyperlink in my post.
Maybe we were not "friends" then?

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cuboz September 24 2009, 03:37:25 UTC

2 weeks of Australian sunshine would do you the WORLD of good! But I'm biased, of course!!! :-)

london1967 September 24 2009, 16:14:20 UTC

I agree, but it SOOOOOOOOOO far away!

bureaucracy! redbearmark September 24 2009, 07:17:00 UTC

I am sure they aren't too cordial.

I had the great misfortune to have to fly out of Boston Logan Airport two weeks after 9/11. Epic and patience testing - I didn't fly again until 2007 (union training and such always is farther away).

It seems improved but I am also physically (but not mentally) a native.

but you have some great locations that are just a train trip away. Their gain is our loss!

Re: bureaucracy! london1967 September 24 2009, 16:15:40 UTC

I bet that security was very tight then!

I'll probably 'get over it' and visit the US again some time!

timbear September 24 2009, 08:05:08 UTC

The rule for "family" at US immigration has always been "same name, same address" and it's one of the (minor) reasons I changed name when Steve and I got married - so that we can pass through immigration together as a family anywhere we travel. Generally we don't have a problem although there has been the occasional raised eyebrow.

london1967 September 24 2009, 16:19:53 UTC

I didn't know you changed name!

Well the custom form (which is the one that got me in trouble last time) just says "family".
I'm sure that a straight couple (married or not - a wife can keep her maiden name) wouldn't receive the same treatment.

timbear September 24 2009, 16:34:53 UTC

You might be right, on the other hand it may have just been the agent having a bad day. People in power having a bad day tend to spread it around a bit :-)