of home is actually brown from a lack of rain. But that aside, it's HOME! My flight home was not much better than my flight to Brazil, but I did get some sleep.

Several of the US medal winners - including rowers and the baseball team - were on the plane home. I was sitting next to one of the rowing coaches.

I got into a bit of a snag in Sao Paolo airport because I had a Gerber multitool in the bag with all the TV equipment. It had made it through security going to Rio and had made it through x-ray coming from Rio, but in Sao Paolo, they stopped me and wanted me to throw it away. I said "No Way, that',s R$120 tool. Let me put it in my checked baggage."

So they did. There was a two-hour lag between arriving in Sao Paolo and leaving for Rio. In Sao Paolo they make you go through security to get into the airport, even to get back on the plane you just got off of. That's when the situation started. Eventually everything was cleared up but there is no way that I am going to make THAT mistake again.

Our flight actually arrived early to the United States and I was able to get home before my wife Cornelia went to work. That's great! I hadn't seen her in almost two weeks and it was GOOD TO BE HOME.

Nothing is better on a trip than coming home. Now I need some time to recover since the woman in front of me spent most of the night reclined in my lap.

Like I said, the flight was only a LITTLE better than the one going down. World track and field is next in Osaka, Japan. I hope that trip is uneventful. They had an earthquake in Japan last week that caused a slight leak at a NUCLEAR power plant. Let's hope and pray the only excitement is on the track.