I handed my pass­port to the offi­cer. She scanned it and right way it appeared that there was some­thing not quite right. I remem­bered when I came through the air­port at the begin­ning of my trip that the offi­cer had prob­lems scan­ning my pass­port and had to enter the num­bers in man­u­ally. I thought it was because the pass­port is fairly worn, but the agent acted like it was odd that it would not scan. So, I thought the dif­fi­culty on the way back was no dif­fer­ent. How­ever, this agent exhib­ited an expres­sion that was more telling then I would know. She picked up a tele­phone and briefly spoke with some­one while I stood there. It was then that she said that I would have to go with her. She did not elab­o­rate any fur­ther. Read on… →