Another thing learned....

All of our backpacking experience in which we counted every ounce is now paying off!  With reduced airline baggage weight limits and some airlines using the "weight concept", distributing the weight across bags is critical.  According to one airline customer service rep, the excess baggage fee changes daily depending on the published fare for that flight for that day... and it apparently changes frequently!  Excess weight can be charged anywhere from 5USD per 10kg to 14USD per 1kg... more or less, depending... So, packing, re-packing, weighing, reducing, re-distributing, weighing, reducing, re-packing, re-weighing...