It has been quite a day. We have been packing our containers using the guidelines given to us by Turkish Air.....no single container over 70lbs. Today I ran across a reference to baggage on the TA website and it said 50lbs. After calling and talking to several different TA employees we ended up with a score of 1 to 3.
3 of the employees said that we are allowed 70lbs per bag....1, very emphatic, employee stated that the limit was 50lbs...and if the container weighed more than 50lbs they would reject it flat out. No fees, overages etc.
So, not needing the hassle of trying to figure what to throw away at the ticket counter, Ann pulled everything out and started re-packing with the 50lb limit. This is where the squeeze comes in. We need to buy a couple more shipping containers....(our books are killing us).
While we negotiated through that issue, we multitasked....putting together a 2800 piece final newsletter, returned our "non acceptable" shipping containers to the store, stopped to buy lots of stamps, and finally got to bed at midnight to blog, and get up early for a final team meeting in Costa Mesa.
It is surprising how much effort it takes to get ready to relax and vacation.
Wandering the Anatolian Silk Roads with our crew of four we are in our 7th year of what we thought was going to be a brief detour through Asia Minor. Now living in Istanbul, this blog is frustratingly inconsistent and written by someone who hates writing...but loves having written.
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