35 lbs of Chile as Checked Baggage (compensation, company, frugal)
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Roasted and frozen presents its own challenges. If my baggage is delayed or winds up in Iowa, it could start to thaw and then there's that mess to deal with. I don't want 35 lbs of thawing green chile delivered to my hotel room at 3 am.
The chile arrived on the baggage carousel just behind my checked bag and I managed ( with a $4 luggage cart ) to schlep it to the taxi line. The taxi driver ( and Boston area cabbies are a whole other topic of conversation ) managed to manhandle it into the cab and then threw it on the sidewalk outside my hotel upon arrival.
I dragged it into the hotel and ( mainly because I stay at the same small boutique hotel each month ) was able to put it immediately into the restaurant cold storage area.
After many emails to my work foodies lists, a nice fellow employee drove to the hotel, picked up the chile, brought it back to the office where we broke it town to 1-2 lb-ish bags and it has been appreciated and loved by those who know Hatch.
It was a fun adventure.
As I am permanently relocating to the BOS area in a few months, it may be the last time I bring chile on a plane but it was very pain free.
After many emails to my work foodies lists, a nice fellow employee drove to the hotel, picked up the chile, brought it back to the office where we broke it town to 1-2 lb-ish bags and it has been appreciated and loved by those who know Hatch.
It was a fun adventure.
As I am permanently relocating to the BOS area in a few months, it may be the last time I bring chile on a plane but it was very pain free.
I'm still working on my good bye ABQ post.
This Special Green Chile award is presented to Karmathecat for succeeding in the transport of precious cargo to far
away lands so that others might appreciate unique flavors from Nuevo Mexico.
Boston is fantastic. I'm originally from what I think of as the West Coast alternative ( San Francisco ) to the small big city vibe it has. My employer ( in Cambridge ) has re-evaluated the remote employee program I was fortunate to be part of for the past 5.5 years and my job duties and decided that I can be more effective in product development by participating in the synergy of working with my team directly. I agree. I already spend 2 weeks a month there and the back and forth is killing me.
There are a myriad of things I will miss about New Mexico and many things I won't mind saying good bye too. As much as I complain about the poorly educated population here, the MIT/Harvard socially inept group is annoying as well. And they just built a Chipotle in Kendall Sq which may very well signal a death knoll to keeping out chains which. IMO, belong right where they are on Rte 1 in such dreary places as Saugus or Stoneham.
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