Not much to add about the actual flight .. I managed to sleep for about 90 minutes before my stiff and hurting neck woke me up.
Just before landing we got some snack, either a tuna calzone, or German style hot dog, which was pretty cool .. a veal sausage backed into a pretzl roll .. and to top it off, the sausage was filled with that grainy sweet mustard one would expect with this.
Once we arrived at the immigration check point I was shocked about the huuuuge line ... I asked some guy 'from this point, how long' and he said '2 hours' ... and he was not kidding .. incredible ...
So, a bit before 2 h were up I reached the checkpoint and that guy looked over my passport very thoroughly and realized that once I had a green card .. and the question was, what happened with that ... so, that got me a nice yellow B on my customs form, which means second interview .. and that took another loong time, in total I was having fun with immigrations for 3:45 h ...
In the end, I had to officially give up my status as legal resident (which is fair, as I have not been living in the US for a long time) ... but I was also informed that if / when I want to return to the US as a resident, I can go to an embassy or consulate abroad and ask to have my residency status back ... the very nice officer Michael Harris (who reminded me with his good mannered humor a lot of Sgt. Powell from the first 2 Die Hard movies) made it sound quite easy .. well .. we shall see if that ever comes up again ...
So, plane landed at 4 PM .. at 8 PM I finally boarded my super shuttle to get to my bed & breakfast ... and when I arrived around 9 PM, there was nobody there! (Later I found that they had emailed me 'late check-in instructions' ... but there was an emergency number and I asked as nice guest lady if I could use her phone to call.
More on that B&B later, I have a very nice 'single' room, whcih could actually sleep 4 people ... on the other hand, the bath is shared with 2 other rooms ...
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