Hi, Folkiedave - I thought it was supposed to be easy to go from one EU country to another, but I found out that's not always true. In the summer of 2005, I was on a tour bus going from Poland to the Czech Republic. We sat at the border for an hour. Maybe it was complicated by the fact that we had a few non-Americans - or maybe they were paying us back for trouble they had in entering the US.
I used to do the security clearances for U.S. immigration inspectors, so I got a number of chances to watch them work. Many U.S. ports of entry are dismal places, a very unfriendly environment for "welcoming" visitors. That's a shame. At many places, the immigration employee morale is very poor because of poor working conditions, and that makes things even more inefficient and unpleasant for visitors to the U.S.
-Joe-