I traveled to Memphis and Jackson in the USA. Memphis is famous for Elvis Presley’s home town and Graceland is a place that Japanese President Koizumi had been invited by President Bush just recently. I visited in these towns for business travel, but I had trouble with the immigration because of the influence of the terrorist issue in UK. It was impossible taking with me such items: plastic bottles, tooth paste, and pills. I needed prescription by the doctor if I wanted to bring medicines in the airplane.
I had one hour and half transferring from Huston to Memphis, however, the airplane arrived at Huston with an hour delay, (well, this news didn’t make me laugh), it took another hour for getting out of the US custom. On top of that, in spite of I had mentioned my contact person, the immigration officers got me out of line for not providing enough information. By the time I was in line for an interview, I was exhausted of making several calls to my friends. (My friend reserved the hotel but I was not told where to stay) There is information counter for tourists in the airport. If people don’t make reservation in hotels, they cannot write information of accommodation, I wonder whoever don’t write where to stay on the custom declare form, are they suspected as members of terrorists? I think, it is easy to write false documents if a person want to do, so there is no solution for protecting us from those terrorists. It is nice of those security officers in the USA airport, but I would say I had enough! They are wasting time. I had happened to meet a person in the plane on the way back from the USA. The person had big trouble because he didn’t have information of his accommodation. He was kept in the searching room for 2 hours. After I had been checked by the security on the way back form Memphis airport, I left my luggage in the waiting room and went to the washroom for 2 to 3 minutes. When I came back from the washroom, my luggage was gone! The security took away my luggage!
I admit that I was a bit careless, but I was going to take the first airplane in the morning and the security officer saw me going to the washroom. I got nervous because I didn’t want to miss the plane and if I missed it, I was not going to be able to make for another transfer. Fortunately, I got my luggage back at the last minute. What an experience I had in this travel! Well, it makes me think that it is not a good time going to the USA.Well, this time, I am not going to mention about the job, because my clients told me not to write about them. In this travel, I had an idea that I will get profit on non-registered vehicles in the USA. The people in the south are very friendly. They like simple life style. Although I don’t want to think about what had happened in the airport, I had a great time in there.
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