Traveling By Bike is amazing, Katrina and I love it. You see parts of the place you are in that you otherwise wouldn't , you "earn it" and therefore "appreciate it" more, and of course it's a free work out. All amazing reasons but Traveling WITH Bikes is a pain in the ass, near that of TWK (traveling with kids *cue full body shiver). To travel with a bike you first have to pack it into an incredibly small box, then pay outrageous "bike fees", and lastly you get to worry for hours that some one is going to bend, break, smash, crush, breathe on wrong, or otherwise defile your pride and joy, your bicycle. This is why I said that we would never ship our bikes any where again and yet this is exactly what we did. Although this time around we were prepared and team Willina (that name needs work...) scored.
I was trying to find a way to not pay the 150$ each way each bike baggage fee when it hit me; porters! Porters will collect your bags and check you into your flight for a tip. This got me thinking, and with a well placed twenty dollar bill I was able to distract said porter from noticing the over sized nature of our baggage. We saved 280$ that we will naturally now piss away on soju and beer.
Let us all hope the rest of our trip goes as smoothly.
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