If you’re a geek traveler with a backpack full of gadgets, perhaps you’ve also obsesivelly thought of how to make this tedious part of travelling as fast and issue free as possible.<\/p>\n
Here’s my ritual for the damn TSA Security Line.<\/p>\n
I usually travel with:
\n– A jacket since most places I travel to are cold, or the plane cabin could be cold.
\n– Backpack
\n– My laptop.
\n– iPad, Kindle, SLR Camera.
\n– Belt for my pants, I used to not bring belts so I wouldn’t have to take them off before the line (that’s how obsessive I am about this)<\/p>\n
BEFORE YOU GET INTO THE X-RAY CONVEYOR BELT LINE:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are wearing a jacket, place EVERYTHING that you have in your pant pockets (that means wallet, cellphone, keys, coins, etc) except your ID\/Boarding pass on your jacket pockets, zip em up if you jacket has zippers. If you don’t have a jacket, or your jacket doesn’t have zippers in the pockets, it’s preferable that you put all these things inside one of the outer pockets of your backpack.<\/p>\n WHILE ON THE X-RAY CONVEYOR BELT LINE:<\/strong><\/p>\n After you’ve given the go by the security officer and you’re about to grab the plastic trays, take your shoes, belt and jacket off and place them on a container.<\/p>\n Immediatly, open your backpack, take your laptop out, put it on a second container, STACK<\/strong> this container on top of the one holding your jacket\/belt\/shoes.<\/p>\n Then for the iPad,Kindle,SLR camera grab a third plastic container, and again, STACK IT on top of the other two<\/strong>, now you are carryng everything on a smaller area<\/strong> and more people can walk in behind you towards the x-ray machine conveyor belt.<\/p>\n Put your backpack ahead of the containers, and then start unstacking things in the order you prefer, I like having my jacket and shoes first, then my laptop, and then the rest, so I can put my shoes on, restack everything on the other end, and walk to the area where you can sit and re-arrange. <\/p>\n This way you won’t block the line after your things have been scanned and there’s less of a chance you will forget anything.<\/p>\n Oh, and make sure you wear white socks, you don’t want to be profiled as a crazy eastern terrorist by wearing thin black socks.<\/p>\n Obsessive-compulsive Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re a geek traveler with a backpack full of gadgets, perhaps you’ve also obsesivelly thought of how to make this tedious part of travelling as fast and issue free as possible. 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