On our way to Catatonic for Cat Fight! My current job and travel is cramping my TTOL lifestyle, so sorry for the long hiatus.

Good news is that the Dawg Rocks Memorial marker is checked on our Delta non-stop flight, but what an adventure it has been. I ordered the Taylor Made Sur-Mark Buoy from Cabela's and then got an email Monday that it still hadn't shipped. West Marine carried it (but for about 50% more even with Port Supply) on-line, so I got one express shipped to our local store, so I cancelled the Cabela's order. Turns out it was too big to ship FedEx (which is why it said it hadn't shipped), but it actually had shipped by a common carrier, so guess what shows up at our house yesterday and at West Marine yesterday...we are on a first name basis with everyone in the store so they did take this special order item back.



Getting this in the trunk was the first hurdle with our driver this morning. Next, the Delta baggage counter at JFK. The gate agent had no idea what a marker buoy was, so I told her it was a water proof golf bag. She didn't like that and next thing we knew she and her supervisor were trying to find the right button to press. It is only 32lbs, but over 4' tall. They finally decided general oversized bag which would be an additional $200 <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />. I went back to the golf bag argument and I think I wore them both down and told them this was a memorial buoy. Next stop TSA with oversized bags...the agent said to me, is that a buoy. I answered affirmative, and she said, that's cool!

Sur-Mark should be on our flight! Hopefully I can update this post from STT later today!

We are planning on meeting up with Sailpuppy at the airport to help with special transportation to JVD.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Dirk & Sandy