For a law worth repealing, I nominate Murphy's Law. Our "Coming to America" story this week.

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7. What a frustrating mess much of that trip was! And yours started days before the holiday weekend.

Tonight's CBS News led off with a story about travel woes here in the US, with airline office staff being reassigned to check bags, and they also interviewed one man who said he was going to drive 10 hours to avoid airports. Not an option for you, obviously, but I'm sorry travel in Europe isn't the well-organized dream a lot of Americans have heard that it is.

I hope the sun and sea, the company, and all that great local seafood will quickly make the trip there a distant nightmare -- and that the trip home won't be nearly as bad.

Are you going to borrow a guitar this year to join your friend for some busking? Provincetown residents and visitors who hear you will be in for a treat.