Bottleneck on the Boulevards

It took 14 hours to flight from California to Albany, NY on Wednesday but that was because a man walked up to airport officers on the upper-level road at the west end of LAX airport claiming he was a terrorist and had a bomb. The man was immediately detained but that didn't stop the entire airport from going into high alert with 131 flights delayed and 20,000 airline passengers waiting in long lines. My flight was already on the tarmac when the chaos broke and seconds before take off. Thankfully, the true gridlock kicked in after our wheels were off the ground. Still, the ripples were felt as far away as JFK when the second leg of my journey was delayed 4 hours when I arrived. But, the layover gave me time to pick up the newest green-friendly travel mags and dream about surfing my new favorite beach off the coast of Ensenada, California.