Getting into the US: Computer said no, temporarily
October 11, 2008
Our journey to San Antonio, Texas didn't go quite according to plan ('our' encompasses me and a fam trip group, pictured below).
Delayed at Heathrow after a small nick was discovered in the bottom of the fuselage, we arrived to find the immigration system at Houston down.
The problem left us standing still for comfortably over an hour, and as more flights arrived and the hall began to fill, we became preoccupied by one question: what happens if they can't get it working again?
Does anyone have a definitive answer to this? I can't imagine they have a stash of sleeping bags at the airport...
But they did get it working, of course, and we got here - see some San Antonio photos over on Postcards.
Nathan Midgley
