Jenise
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Joined: 3/20/2013 From: The Pacific Northest Westest Status: offline
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I've never packed more than 1 or 2 bottles in check-in luggage and never had a problem. If we travel with wine we usually travel with enough to warrant taking our Wine Check, either for what goes with us or what we plan to bring back. But once upon a time, when you could still do that, we had a bottle of 40 year old port in a carry-on from LA to Houston. Forgive me if I've told this story here before, I may have. It was a somber occasion: Bob's father Fred had just died in a fire in his home, and we were going there to literally sift through the ashes of a man's life. The bottle was a thank you gift for the port-lovers we'd be staying with, total strangers IRL but known from the wine/food internet, and they happened to live in the same small Texas town as Bob's dad and generously offered to put us up. We wrapped it in a towel and stowed it on its side in a small leather duffel. The port was the only thing in it. About an hour before landing, we noticed a maroon drip coming down the wall from the overhead compartment. It looked like blood but unless someone had stashed a dead body up there, that was our port. Bob ran to the bathroom for a fistful of paper towels, and we wiped it off after making sure an attendant wasn't looking. Then came another. Then two more and so on. So we'd make sure the coast was clear, then wipe, then check, then wipe, and it was starting to feel like a Marx Brothers movie--the mission so horrific, the situation so ridiculous: a dead Fred and a bottle of port whose old cork had apparently popped loose due to cabin pressure. I'll never understand how/why no one seemed to notice because we were in full panic mode, but finally we were strapped in for landing unable to do anything more but laugh as the rivulets kept coming. And I mean laugh! Hysterical, unstoppable giggles, so we didn't so much as walk off that plane as we lurched down that aisle holding each other up expecting someone to yell "Hey you forgot your bag!" They didn't.
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