Adventures in Traveling

If you are thinking about flying out of Atlanta sometime soon, take my advice. Don't. This is an airport that takes the two-hour early arrival seriously. Beautiful terminal. Efficient self-service check in. Mind-boggling wait to get though security. I took this picture from about the halfway point - these folks are in one of four lines through the atrium - then made my way to the end to do the 50-minute shuffle. The line moved along okay, and there were probably twenty gates open at the security checkpoint, but what a crowd! Then, if you are leaving from one of the far terminals you have ride down the loooong escalator to get on the train that starts and stops with a jerk and then back up top and way out to the 35th gate just as the attendant is calling your name to assign you a seat. Anyway, I made it. I'm glad I got there early. I took a picture of the entrance to the Cat facility just before I left on Friday. Nice setting, compact little factory. If you squint you can see some finished log skidders in the far background. Or maybe not.