The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With... Baggage Check-in?

The old proverb doesn’t go quite like that, but in our modern day and age, baggage check in is, unfortunately, a rather necessary evil. I have to admit, however, that for 13 people getting ready to spend 10 days in difficult conditions, we had less than 10 actual check-in bags (5 of which were from Ron VanderGriend for us to “smurf” across into India for Bible League staff and church planters), and mostly carried our gear with us. Pretty impressive! Nonetheless, it still took us a good half-hour to 45 minutes to get everyone checked, passed and ready, and aside from a slight malfunction with Susie Haycock’s boarding pass from Paris to Chennai, everything went about as smoothly as it could have.