well, I'll be.

so, just found out a neat little tidbit. and by neat I mean ANNOYING.

you may now only check one bag when flying. well, at delta and american, anyway. haven't looking into the rest.

now, I am a)a chronic overpacker and b)someone who likes to be prepared. I am also not remarkably strong, and I prefer to sort my things such that my shampoo and dress do not have a party while in the luggage compartment high up in the air. I completely respect that packing lighter=less fuel used=less pollution. I do. Of course I do. But that's not what they're going for here. They aren't looking at the environment, they're looking at their pocketbooks. And trying to get you to make up the difference for them.

I had already decided that I would pack just one bag, and put another in my suitcase so that should packing to return be a little difficult, I could just throw it in bag #2. I'm only there for four days, though I do require quite a few outfits and pairs of shoes (fish fry, bridal luncheon, rehearsal dinner and wedding, plus clothes for the day on friday, saturday and sunday). It'll all be fine. I just find it unfortunate that I *only* heard about this because I bothered to do the pre-check in and saw that they'd changed it. It became effective on May 5th, by the way.

So, the people counter-offered on the house, and it ain't pretty. I countered back, and we'll see where it goes from here...I will have my computer in Alabama (and supposedly I'll have free internet) so perhaps I will keep you posted.