Return from Michigan to Scotland

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My flights were from Ontario: Windsor, connecting in Toronto. Windsor is one of these small airports where at the baggage carousel one can see the guy behind putting the baggage onto it and security is sometimes closed and unmanned. It also seems to attract inexperienced travelers: the line ahead of me moved very slowly as people turned up with oversized carry-ons, mismatch of name between ticket and photo ID, etc. The clerk was clearly pleasantly surprised at how easily processed I was. I found myself sharing the airplane with the Toledo Rockets who play college basketball and are generally rather tall. They are now in Rome playing some friendly games with European teams. We once bought a minivan in Toledo but that was far from worth mentioning to them.

In Toronto I discovered an express walkway. These are wonderful: the moving walkway unfolds itself underneath one's feet then one travels rather faster for the bulk of the journey, the reverse happening toward the end. I wondered how far one can push this idea, if some further unfolding is practical for even greater speed. The international departure area I reached for my flight to Glasgow had some Toledo Rockets and I am quite sure that on some previous year my flight to Edinburgh or Heathrow had left from one of the other gates in that same area.

I now find myself somewhat jet lagged; this morning I slept until 11h which is most unlike me.