RyanGi- unfortunately it is also where there are double doors into my office so will have traffic there at the transition.  I guess I could look at doing a custom transition as I'm planning to do that for the entry into the living room.  

I will have to look up vinyl glue.  I was thinking to just use super glue on the locking mechanism between the full planks and the 1" plank sections, although I'm not sure what that material is actually.