"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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From: Pat in TX on 3 Aug 2006 19:32 The bag for you is the Osprey Porter 46 with the Daylite day bag attached. I put it in the overhead bin on the airplane easily. You can leave the bigger bag at your hotel and detach the Daylite bag to use as a day bag backpack. http://www.ospreytravelpacks.com 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
From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 3 Aug 2006 20:24 > Finally, do you find any particular *colors* either very good > or not so good for rugged travel? Mine are the colour of the dirt on airport floors. ============== 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
From: The Reid on 4 Aug 2006 04:00
Following up to Miguel Cruz >My girlfriend travels with a large wheeled bag and it slows us down >tremendously (hope she's not reading this). It is faster for me to pick >her bag up and carry it in my arms while also wearing my large backpack, >than for her (or me) to drag it by the wheels. this may be due to your extremely manful physical manly prowess. I note female hotel staff, helping with bags tend to use the wheels, while I follow your example of trying to pull my arms off. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |