With the help of Compton-Rock's assistant, Cece Falls, Laura got the paperwork done and her passport was issued just 24 hours before the kids piled onto the bus for the airport.

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At that point the torch disappeared into another bus and left for the airport.

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Jersey's new bus operator is having to change its timetable after not allowing enough time for buses to get from the airport to the bus station.

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They took a nine hour flight from Osaka to Brisbane, traveled by bus to the stadium, dutifully watched the game and left immediately for the airport for the return trip to Osaka.

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At 0430 this morning I was in a hotel in the French Alps waiting for a bus to take me through a blizzard to Geneva Airport and home.

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Speaking of airports... (See what we did there?) Waiting in line for any kind of transit -- airport security, the subway, the bus, (insert other ring of hell here) -- can be a maddening state of affairs.

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