You know, I actually tried the hard liquor on one trip... I bought bottles of rum before leaving and rolled them up in my blue jeans in my suitcase, figuring that it would be easy to just buy sodas in the vending machines in the hotel. Unfortunately, when I got to my hotel room and unpacked, I discovered that the rum had broken in my suitcase and all of my clothes were drenched in alcohol. I had to spend my first evening in San Antonio driving all around a strange neighborhood trying to find a laundromat to wash all of my clothes. I never packed liquor in a suitcase again after that fiasco.