LAX

Had our first experience getting inspected at a regulated port - LAX of all places.

The guys were nice about it, overall, except that they insisted we have our escort with us before we even come up to the line. We were early to start with - hadn't even called for our escort the first time - but the second time the escort had found us, and was on his way back to his vehicle and the guards tried to turn us away again because we were ahead of him.

Anyway, for those of you concerned about the safety of our ports... I'm not sure our experience there will make you feel especially safer, but they did search under the chassis, looked inside the cab, and under the hood, they checked our load and licenses, and in general chatted us up - mostly about Buddy. That's where the 'meh' comes in. They seemed easily distracted by a big dog, and us ordinary looking folks. Not that  I wanted to get super searched or anything, and we did have 3-4 guys crawling over everything. I guess it was an okay experience. I'm just glad Collin didn't tell one of his jokes that he things is funny but I think will just end up with us getting body cavity searches done... : )

While we were waiting, the Goodyear Blimp flew over us