So much for flying with carry on's

Right now the news is crawling with reports of how a terrorist plot was just thwarted in London. Apparently a bunch of people that hate the good ole USA wanted to destroy some trans-Atlantic flights going to the US but they were caught but it is still causing massive amounts of chaos at airports in the UK and in the US. As I was driving into work, all the radio stations were mentioning it on their shows and how that at a bare minimum you had to be at the airport 2 hours early because of the elevated security status.

Now the part thats really going to hurt is for people like me that don't like to check luggage when they travel. Most of my travels don't span more than a week and even then most of my most recent travels have only spanned 3 days or so. If I'm only going somewhere for 3 days, do I really need to check in luggage when a carry on is sufficient? Well according to most news I'm reading right now, you can barely bring anything with you on board the plane now (probably short term but if I was a regular business flyer I'd be pissed). A lot of the things that I normally take with me on a trip are electronic in nature, things like my iPod, my wife's PSP when she lets me take it for playing games, my Treo, and of course my laptop PC. I'm not very comfortable checking any of these things onto a plane because I know what happens when I give up my baggage to others. Normally it gets all banged up and thrown about in the cargo hold and the chance of one of these things being broken just sky rockets! I paid hundreds of dollars for this stuff which is used to keep me entertained on airplanes because the magazine thats on board really stinks and you can only shop on the Sky Mall for so long without going nuts.

As I'm checking my schedule right now I don't think I'm going to be flying any time soon except for October for my mom's birthday which is a small 3 hour hike to NY. Maybe at that time I won't be taking my laptop but I sure am taking a lot of my other electronic gizmo's and hells no am I checking that stuff in because NY bag handlers are some of the worst I've seen yet. I used to have broken baggage that proves this but the airline replaced it since it was so damaged it couldn't be used anymore. Now if gas were cheaper, I'd just start driving everywhere instead of flying, seems to be much safer and have a lot less hassles............ So to all your travelers out there good luck at the airports!