Hello Friends. For those who don't know me, I've only been smoking a pipe seriously for about 5 months. I've learned a lot in that time, still recognizing I have a long way to go. This was made abundantly clear last week when I took my kids from Toronto down to Miami for a week. Despite Miami being likely the most unfriendly pipe smoking place on the planet (see, still learning), after much effort and expense, I found an amazing shop (My Tobacconist) to augment what I brought with me. Navigating this turned out to be the easy part. Again, as a new pipe smoker who has really only learned what I know of the craft in cold to freezing cold temperatures, being in a hot humid environment ruined all the wishful notions I had of sitting back, relaxing on a deck chair for the week with a pipe in my face. I feel like all of the fundamentals that I've learned went out the window. I had to seriously re-adjust what I packed, how I packed it and how I smoked it. My pipes got super hot, my tongue nearly burned right off, struggled to keep it lit, or burned too fast, on and on and on. Ribbon cut was better, moist flakes....I figured out the rubbing them out like I do at home was a disaster, so I ended up going with the simple fold and stuff method. WTF is going on? Reaching out to old schoolers who have experience in multiple weather environments for more than just advice, but acknowledgment that I'm not a complete idiot.