I went to Mexico with only film cameras (my Leica MP and Leica Minilux) and, for reasons I can’t fully defend, about half the film I packed was expired. We were there for a friend’s wedding at an all-inclusive resort, and I had the rare gift of zero wedding-day photography responsibilities—which meant I could finally burn through the random, long-forgotten rolls haunting my film drawer. I hand-checked everything through airport security (I’m not a monster) and then let the Cancún heat and humidity do whatever it was going to do. In the video, I walk through each stock and show the real, unedited scans: Walgreens 200 (a nostalgic surprise from my grandma’s closet that actually looked dreamy and memory-like), Fujifilm consumer stocks with mixed results, and one truly humbling double-exposure disaster where I accidentally layered the couple’s aisle kiss and walk-down. Ektachrome E100 was my summer fling that delivered sharp, vivid color and those blues I love, while expired Kodak Gold 400 was a total muddy-magenta failure—even Lightroom waved the white flag. The redemption arc was TMAX 3200 shot at 800: gritty, timeless, and proof that black-and-white can absolutely save the day. My big takeaways: storage matters, heat will wreck film, keep expectations basement-level, and don’t shoot expired film on anything you can’t afford to lose.