Moving soon, any precautions I should take?

[CamoSutra]

I'm preparing for a move to another town 50-60 miles away in about a month. Naturally I intend to transport my cigars personally by car.

Does anyone have tips on anything special I should do to keep my cigars (in desktop humidors) safe during their travel to our new home? All three humis are pretty full, and if anything they'll be fuller by then. I'm thinking they should be okay as long as I weight the humidor lids with other items to keep them from bouncing open. (I might even wrap the humidors with plastic wrap, just to be safe.) And of course I'll let the humidors rest undisturbed overnight or longer once they're installed in my new home office, in order to recover from any temperature and RH changes during the trip.

[TreySC]

You should be fine. Like you said keep them from bouncing around, maybe even throw a little bubble wrap in the humi if it isn't completely full.

[bluenoser]

I'd definitely put some bubble wrap or something inside to make sure they don't move around inside the humi while travelling, bout all I can suggest.

[CamoSutra]

TreySC and bluenoser, thanks for the bubblewrap idea. I may do that, but I'd rather just pack them the rest of the way full of cigars. I can hit the Devil Site a time or two, and bid a profitable farewell to the local B&M; then I'll put a couple of days' worth of favorite cigars into a 15-stick traveldor, fill the desktops to the gills, and put any overflow into my other traveldors and/or a tupperdor.

Another thought came to me: I think at least two of the desktop humidors will fit into the 36-quart Coleman I already have in anticipation of making a coolerdor. Bubblewrap to cushion/fill, and they may not even notice a change in temperature while they're traveling.

I'm actually much more concerned about getting the cigars there safely than I am about the TV, stereo, computers and other electronics. Of course I want everything to survive the trip; buying replacements would seriously cut into my cigar-buying money!

[OnePyroTec]

If you were to host a HERF at your house before you moved, you wouldn't have to worry about anything

[CamoSutra]

If you were to host a HERF at your house before you moved, you wouldn't have to worry about anything

I just might do that. Or at least take an assortment to the music store down the street where I hang out (and gift cigars to the proprietors and instructors) for an after-hours herf. I've been meaning to take my Jazz Bass in for a new bridge and a good setup anyway, and I need to do that soon.

[CamoSutra]

Time has come to start packing the cigars for my move next week. Including the latest two shipments, I now have a 100-count desktop, a 50-count desktop, two 15-count traveldors, seven shallow "temporary tupperdors" and a box of Olivas still in the box with the box in a ziplock; all full or nearly so. Bovedas in everything, HF beads in the two desktops. Empty space under the lids of the desktops will be filled with air-bags or bubblewrap so the cigars don't bounce around. I plan on smoking out of the traveldors until everything is in the new place and unpacked; everything else except the 100-count will fit into my 36-quart Coleman cooler, I think; if not, I'll put the overflow into a cardboard box. I'll just lock the 100-count, box it for transport, and hope for the best.

How many sticks total? Dunno, I didn't count, but I'd estimate around 225-250. (I've been gifting some of my local friends, probably given away 75 so far.) The collection I'm transporting runs the gamut from cheap Casa de Garcias to Avos, Fuentes and Padrons; right now I'm heavy on Rocky Patel, Oliva and Romeo y Julieta, light on several other favorites.

My leaky old 50-stick humidor is now an official cigarstuph box, someplace to keep supplies and accessories. Except it's 'way too small to hold everything, and I keep finding more that needs to be kept with the cigars, so I've filled a couple of cigar boxes and I'm working on a third one. All of these will end up boxed together for the movers to transport.

The way it looks now, I may end up filling the Accord's back seat and floorboard with just cigars and cigarstuph. That means the acoustic guitar will probably go into the trunk, and the rest of the musicstuph will either go on the moving truck or wait until I make a second trip in the car -- which I have to do anyway, since I won't trust movers with most of the computer gear. (I now know the exact location of every bump and pothole between here and there -- lots of them.)

I'll have more space in the new apartment, and I need it; I have too much stuph! The second bedroom will become a combination home office/cigar lounge/library/music room, leaving more usable space in the living room and master bedroom. There's also a patio, larger than the one here, where I can enjoy cigars and beverages when the weather's nice. The apartment community even has a picnic area with both gas and charcoal grills permanently installed, something I didn't have here. Now, if I can just get the manager to swap the small fridge in the kitchen for one of the larger ones they have ....

[Browns7213]

Bubble wrap inside the humi is all you need. And I think it goes without saying transport them yourself don't let movers or friends assisting you as movers handle them. No one will treat your stash as well as you not even your significant other.

[CamoSutra]

Whoops! What I thought was a 36-quart cooler is only 28 quarts -- the "36" on the big label pasted to it refers to the number of 12-ounce cans it's designed to hold. When I started loading it up, three tupperdors and a 15-stick traveldor wouldn't fit -- also the 100-stick desktop, but I already knew it wouldn't.

Oh, well. I will pack the overflow into a moving box along with my ashtrays (which I forgot to consider when I started packing "cigarstuph" -- oops!), keep the little cooler for picnics, and buy a larger cooler for cigars after I'm settled at the new place.

Speaking of which: I get the keys Wednesday, movers will be here Friday, I hope to be completely moved by this time next week. Still too many boxes to finish filling, and just making my way through the apartment is getting hard to do. On the positive side, the weather today is nice (finally!) and I need a break from packing; I'm thinking about taking a drive in the country, with a couple of leafy friends to keep me company.

[CamoSutra]

Update: After today's delivery from The Devil Site, I may not need much bubblewrap in my humidors, except to fill the space inside the lids. All three are stuffed to the gills, with overflow in five- and fifteen-stick traveldors.

Can't wait to get relocated. The second bedroom in the new apartment is going to become my office/study/workroom, and home to the cigars. Over time it may become a full-blown man cave, leaving the living room fairly neat for guests and the bedroom ... well, you know.