Which Flute?

The trip is a week away, my efforts at polishing HifuMi are a lifetime away, which flute shall I take on my travels?

Its only a two week jaunt to the desert climes of New Mexico, a pleasant place to be this time of year escaping the fall Vancouver rains and avoiding the summer heat of Santa Fe. I could take a total break from shakuhachi but there is that lesson looming just days after my return. So do I take the 1.8, apply discipline and keep working on smoothing out HifuMi now that I have the technical workings of the piece under control? Or maybe it should just be the little 1.6 for some nice relaxing folk tunes to keep some shaku energy going during the trip? Or how about a 2.6 for some long tones and honkyoku?

These day I do finally have some momentum in my year long study of HifuMi and I've been enjoying practicing the first dan of Rokudan. I does seem a shame to break up the roll I've got going but then again, its been said that a break can be a good thing for your practice too. So what do you think? No shakuhachi practice at all? Take the 1.8 and keep up the routine? Play with the 1.6 for a change? Keep a foot in the bamboo door with a nice long flute?