Most likely, your collection includes cigars that you are reluctant to part with. As someone said earlier, it'd be great to know you have them waiting for you when you get back. Also as mentioned before, there will be cigars there as well. In your shoes, I would leave them with someone reliable; there are guys on this board I know I could ship a cooler full of cigars to and rest assured they'd be in safe hands for the duration. Good luck and have a great time.