Brazil and Mexico Shoot – Day 1

All aboard. . .

I’m way overweight. . .and today it cost me. . .

“About 23 kilos too heavy” a smiling VirginBlue check in attendant told me. “That will be $230.”

I smiled too, broadly. It was the smile of a thousand imagined paper cuts simultaneously inflicted on this cheerful monetary assassin. What do you do though, eh? I’d crammed everything into one very large bag. Tripod, lights, Dolly, Leads, clothes pillow, teddy. . .and it was heavy. . .33.4 kilos to be exact. I had to reshuffle some things to make it 32kg and legal to fly.

Then there was the Pelican Case with the HVX in it. . .don’t even go there. . .

The lady from Delta though, well I could have kissed her. She allowed me to carry my tripod onto the plane, and didn’t charge me a cent for the excess. . .and that was for a flight all the way to Rio. That, my friends, was a beautiful thing. So beautiful in fact that it almost didn’t phase me when they didn’t want to let me leave the country because my passport is water damaged and didn’t scan. They did let me leave though. Whether or not they let me into the US though, that remains to be seen!

So now I’m 10km’s above the pacific, just past Samoa and heading for LA onto Atlanta and then to Rio. There’s still a bit of the way to go yet, but I’m on my way.

More soon. . .