I went back to California for a couple of days to see Summer and help pack up stuff. We decided a couple of weeks ago that spending four thousand dollars for a container to ship our stuff to Puerto Rico was too much money because we didn’t have much big stuff worth sending.

Once I got back to Carlsbad, I realized that I had much more stuff that I wanted to keep than I thought. Summer and I decided to give away, donate or sell everything that wasn’t important to us. After going through all my stuff on the first round, there wasn’t much I was willing to part with. After a couple more reviews of my stuff, I narrowed it down big time and reluctantly left a bunch of stuff behind (New Yamaha tuner, stereo, camping stuff, French Presses, tools and much more).

I still packed a lot of stuff and realized it was going to cost us just as much shipping it via USPS so I called JetBlue and found out their excessive baggage policy. Anything over 2 bags is a $50 charge and they allow up to 100 pounds per bag. So, with that said, I packed up 5 bags with 90 pounds worth of stuff, packed one bike box (with my mountain bike, I left my classic American made Schwinn cruiser ), packed two sets of golf clubs, packed 9 surfboards in two board bags and packed up my computers in a giant box with bubble wrap, peanuts and taped up the box.

French Presses that were left behind (I’m sorry)

Classic Mark Richards twin fin from the 70′s

Preventative Measures while packing the computers



Jet Blue Baggage Pick-up in Aguadilla

The hardest part of the day was arriving in Aguadilla at 4:15 am and having to get all of this stuff to my truck (which was in the parking lot because Mark and Jerry dropped it off for me earlier in the day). By the time I packed it all up and got to the house, the sun was up (6:00am) and I was up for the day. It was a rough one..but all the “big stuff” is here except for the Snowboards and Summers computers.