{"id":13710,"date":"2024-09-27T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:20:31","slug":"how-to-travel-luggage-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/how-to-travel-luggage-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Travel Luggage Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ricky Tyus<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The Truth Travel Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My colleague and his family embarked on a grand adventure from Norfolk, VA to Paris for the Paralympics. They flew non-stop from Norfolk to Newark, NJ, only to face a four-hour ground stop in Newark, courtesy of an Air Traffic Control radar outage. This delay almost made them late for their bargain-basement flight to Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The frugal airline had a strict rule: baggage check-in no later than 90 minutes before departure, and guess what? The check-in desk was already locked up like Fort Knox when they arrived. So, a frantic call to the airline&#8217;s customer service revealed their delightful options: buy new one-way tickets to Paris for the next day and use their return tickets.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more! Thinking outside the box (or suitcase), a party member dashed to the departure gate to plead her case about the luggage dilemma, plus she needed a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>The gate staff heroically dispatched a wheelchair-wielder to the check-in area, and they navigated TSA with their giant suitcases as if they were contestants on a reality show. Fortune smiled upon them as TSA allowed them to process the suitcases, sans the typical forbidden goodies (large liquids &amp; lotions, anyone?).<\/p>\n<p>Surprise! The low-cost flight was an hour late leaving Newark. The airline gate-checked the big suitcases for a princely sum of $60 per bag. Vintage grand tour or obstacle course? You decide!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the ease if they had traveled LuggageFree.<\/p>\n<p>Luggage Free is a specialty service offering travelers the ability to ship luggage ahead to any destination worldwide, allowing you the ability to avoid the inconvenience of carrying, checking and claiming luggage \u2013 even going through customs.<\/p>\n<p>Tyus Tours &amp; Travel is an authorized agent for LuggageFree. For more information visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/3MTSzs7 or call 866-547-5362.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ricky Tyus The Truth Travel Contributor My colleague and his family embarked on a grand adventure from Norfolk, VA to Paris for the Paralympics. They flew non-stop from Norfolk to Newark, NJ, only to face a four-hour ground stop in Newark, courtesy of an Air Traffic Control radar outage. This delay almost made them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[255],"class_list":["post-13710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13712,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions\/13712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}