http://www.live-adventurously.com/getting-through-airport-security/ Live an extraordinary life of Adventure Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.live-adventurously.com/getting-through-airport-security/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Mrs_H Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:32:47 +0000 http://www.live-adventurously.com/?p=1380#comment-66 Like you, I am proactive in telling the guards what's in my bags. For instance, I carry a small pouch that deflects X-rays to protect the memory cards for my digital cameras. It shows up as an impenetrable rectangle in my camera bag. So I always show the bag to the first person, before it goes on the belt, and say, "There's a lead-lined pouch in here to protect my memory cards. I know your equipment probably won't hurt them, but that isn't true everywhere." They usually go ahead and pull it off the conveyer belt to hand-check, which keeps my camera gear from being squashed by someone else's bag while they're pulling on their shoes. ;-> Like you, I am proactive in telling the guards what’s in my bags. For instance, I carry a small pouch that deflects X-rays to protect the memory cards for my digital cameras. It shows up as an impenetrable rectangle in my camera bag. So I always show the bag to the first person, before it goes on the belt, and say, “There’s a lead-lined pouch in here to protect my memory cards. I know your equipment probably won’t hurt them, but that isn’t true everywhere.” They usually go ahead and pull it off the conveyer belt to hand-check, which keeps my camera gear from being squashed by someone else’s bag while they’re pulling on their shoes. ;->

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