Travel with your Guitar

Are you a music-lover? A guitar player? Are you a traveler? In case you are both, do you travel with your instrument?

This question just came up on my mind recently, and I find it quite hard to travel with your musical instrument especially if it is big like a guitar or heavy like drums. I appreciate people who are music-lovers and always bring with them their instruments even though they have to endure the pain of carrying it anywhere they go. And sometimes when they lose something, I am glad they can easily find it online like a push for ableton at guitar center . I also learned that you can bring your musical instruments on board a plane for an extra charge and for its safety.