Taxi (32$) from my Super 8 Riviera Beach motel to West Palm Beach's international airport, an uneventful 20' ride. Check-in's surprisingly fast & easy. At security however, I'm told I've been selected by the airline for a special security search (as indicated by a 'ssss' note on my boarding pass), meaning I get air blown all over me in a sniffing cabin, get to walk shoe- & beltless through a metal detector and am allowed to watch & answer any questions while my backpack, after being x-rayed, also gets thoroughly hand searched & machine analyzed for explosives. I guess from their point of view, anybody voluntarily diving with sharks must be suicidal?
One and a half hour Delta flight from Palm Beach to Atlanta, in time for a five hour long wait until my connecting flight towards Munich.
