I have a guitar (20+ year old Guild D25) that lives with my daughter, formerly in Salt Lake, now in Bozeman. Saves a great deal of hassle, and she has a spare for company. (Of course, those old Guilds, you could probably check in with no case, and they'd come through fine. How come the Guild people in the '70s could build a guitar as rugged as those are, that was not too expensive and still sounded good, and now no one can? I mean, there's a ton of great guitars available, but they're all fragile.)

Peter.