BARE MINIMUM
I love windsurfing. But after decades on tour traveling with massive amounts of equipment, I really don’t like traveling with windsurfing gear. So I packed up the bare minimum: an 82 litre wave board, two 5.0’s, one mast, one boom, and one base and stuck it all in a single layer fitted board bag to make it as small and light as possible. It didn’t even look like a windsurfer it was so small. Stoked. Traveling these days is not what it used to be. I checked in with Air Fiji and as the roll of the dice would have it, they decided that for my three bags (one fairly large duffle bag with my kites, fins, harness, clothes etc., one small surfboard bag with two directional kite wave boards and my tiny little windsurf bag) I would have to pay $630.00. Darn it. I hoped the conditions would justify the expense.