paper weight

I forgot to mention this in my previous blog. So I spent a fair amount of money and time on trying to reduce the amount weight I would have to pack in my backpack, I thought I did pretty good, I got my big backpack down to about 44 lbs, and that's including everything, a full set of dive gear, toiletries, clothes...everything. all I took on my carry on was ipod, kindle and a hat and sweatshirt. Ahh yes but little did I know, that when you take the IDC they give you 9000 lbs of books , manuals, dive slates and best of all ... a big backpack to haul it around in. Yes, now I get to carry about 50 lbs of books and #$%# for the next couple of weeks in honduras and nicaragua...cool . all the best everyone