May 2009
Did you have a drug problem?
14/May/2009 01:03 PM Filed in: General
Maybe I should give our new child a “Drug Problem”
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The War on Travellers
06/May/2009 04:01 PM Filed in: Performing & Travel
Traveling with a lot of stuff is a lost art, in this day and age of air line restrictions. I'm currently in the process of re casing some of my stuff.
One of my directives is to try to get everything to 50lbs. I know you can pay excess to 70, but we have about 7 pieces between two people.
Now, if you fly Air Canada, here is some good news for you.
Each extra piece is $100. However, if you pay that fee at the "quick check in machine" you save $10/piece. So $90/piece. Also, and this is the great part, that extra piece you've paid for is good up to **70** lbs.
So, we paid $270 (3 pieces with discount) for 3 extra pieces which could be 70lbs each.
Of course we didn't know this at the time, but knowing it now can be a help.
All that’s left to pack is our clothes!
However, we often will fly TO a ship on Air Canada, but home on something else. Recently we came home on American Airlines. Guess what. You get nothing free with them! It's $15lbs for the first bag, $25 for the second, and who knows what beyond that. And the "extra" bag fees are NOT up to 70lbs so you could get hit with an extra bag fee of $100/bag, and an over weight fee of $X per bag ouch.
The first thing I thought, is that these airlines are making so much work for people who travel for business, because every flight taken with AA, or other airlines with no free baggage, will mean saving receipts for reimbursement.
For my unicycle, in Need a case 45 by 20 deep (for the tire) by 10.
I have a wood road case, but it's too heavy.
I have just found a DOULBE golf case, hard shell that may fit the bill:
It is 28 lbs, leaving 22lbs for the uni and other stuff. See it here.
However, I'm going to, for the moment, try an experiment. I've found a company in Waterloo that makes custom sized card board boxes. I don't know about you, but there is some seriously strong cardboard out there now a days. I'm going to go in tomorrow and for $40 have a double corrugated strong cardboard box made custom for me and give it a try. The advantage: it will be smaller, to my exact actual needs of 45x20x10, and much lighter since it is cardboard. Therefore I can put more stuff into that bag, rather than filling up other bags.
I figure even if it only lasts 3 trips, or 6 flights, it may be worth it for the size/weight savings. We'll see.
The other bag I just found, which is going to literally save me one piece of checked baggage is this hard shell tripple ski case.
It is here:
I needed something a full 185 cm long (that's really long). In the past I just used a pvc pipe for my plate spinning rods. But now, I will be able to put both the rods, and the racks I use, into one case. Saving me one whole bag. Yay! Just in time for our new bundle of joy coming in August!
One of my directives is to try to get everything to 50lbs. I know you can pay excess to 70, but we have about 7 pieces between two people.
Now, if you fly Air Canada, here is some good news for you.
Each extra piece is $100. However, if you pay that fee at the "quick check in machine" you save $10/piece. So $90/piece. Also, and this is the great part, that extra piece you've paid for is good up to **70** lbs.
So, we paid $270 (3 pieces with discount) for 3 extra pieces which could be 70lbs each.
Of course we didn't know this at the time, but knowing it now can be a help.
All that’s left to pack is our clothes!
However, we often will fly TO a ship on Air Canada, but home on something else. Recently we came home on American Airlines. Guess what. You get nothing free with them! It's $15lbs for the first bag, $25 for the second, and who knows what beyond that. And the "extra" bag fees are NOT up to 70lbs so you could get hit with an extra bag fee of $100/bag, and an over weight fee of $X per bag ouch.
The first thing I thought, is that these airlines are making so much work for people who travel for business, because every flight taken with AA, or other airlines with no free baggage, will mean saving receipts for reimbursement.
For my unicycle, in Need a case 45 by 20 deep (for the tire) by 10.
I have a wood road case, but it's too heavy.
I have just found a DOULBE golf case, hard shell that may fit the bill:
It is 28 lbs, leaving 22lbs for the uni and other stuff. See it here.
However, I'm going to, for the moment, try an experiment. I've found a company in Waterloo that makes custom sized card board boxes. I don't know about you, but there is some seriously strong cardboard out there now a days. I'm going to go in tomorrow and for $40 have a double corrugated strong cardboard box made custom for me and give it a try. The advantage: it will be smaller, to my exact actual needs of 45x20x10, and much lighter since it is cardboard. Therefore I can put more stuff into that bag, rather than filling up other bags.
I figure even if it only lasts 3 trips, or 6 flights, it may be worth it for the size/weight savings. We'll see.
The other bag I just found, which is going to literally save me one piece of checked baggage is this hard shell tripple ski case.
It is here:
I needed something a full 185 cm long (that's really long). In the past I just used a pvc pipe for my plate spinning rods. But now, I will be able to put both the rods, and the racks I use, into one case. Saving me one whole bag. Yay! Just in time for our new bundle of joy coming in August!