Air travel revisited

Ok, so air travel doesn't always suck.

But even when everything goes smoothly, it's still not such a pleasant experience.

Take the Santa Barbara airport, for example. Due to its funky layout, each gate has its own security screening station. Each gate does not have its own lavatory. Due to a lack of signage, the only way to know that a gate doesn't have a lavatory is to wait in the really slow security line and then find out once you're on the inside. You are then faced with weighing your need of the lavatory against your aversion to the security process as affected by the amount of time left until your flight boards.

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We did get an earlier flight from Denver to Aspen. We arrived in Denver at 5:50 pm. The earlier flight was scheduled to depart at 5:25 pm but due to a delay (which undoubtedly was frustrating to those booked on that flight), it was delayed until 6:30 pm. Since we make it a rule to travel with only carry-on luggage, we got on stand-by while many others with checked baggage were turned away.

So, overall a smooth travel day for us but not for others.