{"id":39918,"date":"2020-03-10T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=39918"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:33:56","slug":"i-can-be-as-petty-and-ridiculous-as-any-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/i-can-be-as-petty-and-ridiculous-as-any-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Be As Petty and Ridiculous as Any Airline!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 9 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/a1dAKd\">Fundrazr<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>I travelled for nine months in Europe with just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-traveling-indefinitely-packing-list\/\">carry on and a personal item<\/a>. I got very good at reading all of the budget airlines&#8217; fine print to maximise my carry-on allowance and avoid checking a bag.<\/p>\n<p>Volaris likes to keep things simple. You can travel to Oaxaca with the clothes on your back and a purse or you can pay to bring a carry-on item AND a checked item. So I&#8217;m going to Oaxaca for a week with way more than I took to Europe. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39921 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2473-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am actually debating bringing my carry-on size suitcase as well as I have pleeeeeenty of room to bring back treasures. But I might not be that petty and ridiculous. I can compress all my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/compression-packing-cube-experiment\/\">packing cubes<\/a> to give me way more space in this suitcase, plus it expands, so I should have all the room I need. I&#8217;ll see once I have my tote packed.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit it&#8217;s great to know I don&#8217;t have to worry about liquids at security and that I don&#8217;t have to lug heavy things like my foot pedal in my tote bag.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a theme to the clothes I&#8217;m bringing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89103012_10158169496103953_7763568839706542080_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39916 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89103012_10158169496103953_7763568839706542080_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89103012_10158169496103953_7763568839706542080_n.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89103012_10158169496103953_7763568839706542080_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89103012_10158169496103953_7763568839706542080_n-619x825.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 9 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr!) I travelled for nine months in Europe with just a carry on and a personal item. I got very good at reading all of the budget airlines&#8217; fine print to maximise my carry-on allowance and avoid checking a bag. Volaris likes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39923,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions\/39923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}