Day: 236

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So with my trip to Belize winding down, I was left with only one question to answer today; should I smuggle my 5oz. bottle of the worlds most amazing Hot Sauce back in my carry-on luggage (all I had for this trip) and throw caution to the wind with the TSA’s restrictions on a maximum of 3oz containers in carry-on.

I am a man who likes to stare adversity in the eye (unless he is holding a doorknob), so I chucked it in my bag and we set off to find the water taxi to get us back to Belize City.

To make a long story short, other than lonely the Belizean X-Ray guy who manned both the bag x-ray machine and the people metal detector, who looked at me and said with a knowing look:
“You have a bottle of hot sauce in your bag.”

Which I replied to with the proper questioning look.

He just said “go on.”

And I was back in the states with my hot sauce! I still needed to get it through security once more in Texas though.  The strong and powerful TSA with a virtual army of secruity agents, with their Patriot Act, making me take off my shoes, unpack my computer, show my one liter zip-lock with all my liquids, then proceeds to X-ray everything. The whole time all of them looking at everyone like a terrorist, didn’t see my hot sauce.

I think the USA needs to hire more Belizean TSA agents, at least they seem competent to catch hot sauce smugglers, and are grown up enough to know that it is only hot sauce and not worry about it.

Tomorrow is my day off at home, then its off to China! Regular updates should start again in a couple of days.

See you soon.