Quote Originally Posted by gini
Thanks everyone, I was leaning towards flying anyway - knowing that I just cannot live my life this way - and give away my freedom.

Karen, I am going to Napa - flying into Oakland.

The last time I did this - I had a ride up to Oakland and then flew home, therefore I had only a one way ticket. Boy, did I ever get the once over - shoes, baggage search, purse search, the whole nine yards. It didn't bother me one bit - but obviously a one-way ticket raises huge flags.
Really??? You're going to be flying into my hometown

I say go for it. Security has already been heightened because of the UK incident and I'm sure security will be on its very tip-toes on 9/11. Also, there have been four other 9/11's since 2001. They have all remained incident-less and I'm sure nothing is going to happen this time, either.