Well, I had my suitcase all packed. Managed to fit nearly everything in and then checked the airlines for maximum size of suitcase.
Braaaaaap!
My sports equipment bag was too large. Oh, I could travel with it – if I were willing to pay $150 every time I checked in. Considering how many flights I’m taking on this trip, I swallowed my bile and made an executive decision.
I cannot afford to bring my warping board with me on this trip. Which means I can’t afford to take it to NEWS in July, either.
And so I’m now in the process of re-packing all the stuff that was in the sports bag into the red suitcase in the foreground which should just fit the requirements of maximum allowed luggage size. As long as I pack so that I don’t need to expand it the 1.5″ or so that it will expand. And ‘lightly’ so that it doesn’t bulge.
The sports bag weighed in at 49 pounds as near as we could calculate on our ancient bathroom scale. With the subtraction of the warping board and bamboo blinds I prefer as warp packing, I should be able to add back in most of the stuff I took out so that the warping stuff would fit in.
I so love travelling by air…………(not)
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