"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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From: erilar on 3 Aug 2006 15:55 In article <1154627173.544594.201150(a)h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, "PeterL" <po.ning(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Miguel Cruz wrote: > > "rascal" <rascal22(a)cox.net> wrote: > > > Despite what the "travel experts" may say, carry your bag for a > > > couple of miles or so getting out of the airport and wheels become > > > more attractive. > > > > I cannot imagine a scenario in which a wheeled bag is more attractive, > > unless it is so heavy that you simply cannot lift it - such as an > > equipment container on 4 casters. > > Wait till you are 50 yrs old Miguel. I'm 72 and wouldn't use a wheeled bag if it were free. -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar), philologist, biblioholic medievalist http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo
From: rascal on 3 Aug 2006 16:01 Yes, and that's a really good idea. I say shoot all the tourist as soon as they show themselves. Carrying two bags should be prima fascia evidence of tourism and give everyone the right to shoot them immediately. You surely don't want to just wound them, so shooting to kill is the way to go. "nobody" <nobody(a)nobody.org> wrote in message news:44D23B6C.14AAB568(a)nobody.org... > Miguel Cruz wrote: >> I sometimes have to carry my luggage fairly long distances. For example, >> last year I had to carry two bags (one large checked backpack, worn in >> the back, one small carry-on backpack, worn in the front) from Istanbul >> airport to the center of town because my ATM card had expired just > > > Remember that you cannot do that in the UK anymore. Police will shoot to > kill tourists with backpacks before they get a chance to ask any > questions (and this policy is approved/condoned by the Bliar government).
From: Pat in TX on 3 Aug 2006 19:28 http://www.ospreytravelpacks.com/packs/48/ I traveled in Spain in May for 2 weeks using this Porter 46 because it fit in the overhead bin of the aircraft. No checking luggage and no waiting at the carousel for your luggage to arrive after you. Great bag. I also got the daylite bag. http://www.ospreytravelpacks.com/packs/61/ You just hook in on the outside of the Porter and you can detach it and use it as a day bag later on. Pat in TX
From: Dan Stephenson on 3 Aug 2006 20:08 I've found that if you pack light you can make do with a daypack. I bought a big Gallileo backpack some years back, and now only use the daypack that came with it. Note that this isn't a booksack like kids use at school. Overall if possible I recommend visiting a store, preferrably with about the amount of stuff you're going to bring with you. Note that packing light might mean two changes of clothes, one to wear, one to be drying out. -- Dan Stephenson Photos, movies, panos from the Europe, USA, plus N.Z.: http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda (remove nospam from email address to reply via email)
From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 3 Aug 2006 20:21
>>> Despite what the "travel experts" may say, carry your bag for a >>> couple of miles or so getting out of the airport and wheels become >>> more attractive. >> I cannot imagine a scenario in which a wheeled bag is more attractive, >> unless it is so heavy that you simply cannot lift it - such as an >> equipment container on 4 casters. > Wait till you are 50 yrs old Miguel. I'm 57 and Miguel is dead right. I would never use a wheeled bag for general travelling. (I have just acquired a very heavy accordion, and am thinking about making a wheeled trolley for it, but no way would I go any further than into Edinburgh with that) I was on an Edinburgh bus a few weeks ago with a young Australian couple who had decided to put ALL their possessions into ONE hard-shell wheeled bag. The only bigger bags I've seen are the ones the Scouts use for transporting twenty-person marquees; it would comfortably have held a 30-inch TV. The rule on these buses is that wheelchairs get first priority for space, pushchairs next, luggage nowhere. And somebody in a wheelchair got on. The man could hardly lift the bag and it took him about three tries to get it onto the waist-high bag platform, fuming with outrage all the time. I doubt if even a single fellow-passenger had one iota of sympathy. I've carried backpacks round Istanbul many times. Miguel's picture is dead on. Broken surfaces, tramlines, jam-packed public transport, gangways onto ferries - you'd be nuts to use anything with wheels there. It's no coincidence that there are still porters in Istanbul who can make a living carrying goods on their backs. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |