Before this trip, we had been going twice a year since 2006 (usually from Miami) and usually clear immigration and customs within an hour of when the plane landed. Before this trip, it has not been bad at all. And Global Entry has only been available for what two years?? Anyway, we will closely follow others' reports from Miami for the next few months.

And, as I said in the original note, part of the rotten end was the laptop dying and --as of now, anyway -- losing all my pictures from the trip. That is a far more lasting problem than the return home.