"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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From: Dave Frightens Me on 4 Aug 2006 12:12 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:54:25 -0500, me(a)privacy.net wrote: >Dan Stephenson <stephedanospam(a)mac.com> wrote: > >>I've found that if you pack light you can make do with a daypack > >wow! > >that IS traveling small and light I met a French guy in Bulgaria that had been travelling for months with just a daypack. Very impressed I was! He had everything he needed, and wasn't missing anything too essential. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: RPSinha on 4 Aug 2006 12:55 Traveller <PaulWorksHard(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : Check out the latest and greatest Eagle Creek travel bag the - Explorer : Trek LT. It's only 40Liters, about the same size as the Red Oxx Air : Boss and is a travel backpack. Eagle : Creek makes travel backpacks that are phenomenal. Tough nylon, heavy : duty zippers and excellent design. I've travelled all over the world : with mine and it has held up great. It has travelled on the top of : buses, cargo hold of ships, on my back, strapped to a mules back etc : etc. Is it just a back pack or can ou hide that feature and use it as shoulder bag too? Also, approx cost if you know it? Thanks. : As for colors, I like a dark green. : Paul
From: bob fusillo on 4 Aug 2006 13:18 <lygtepael512(a)yahoo.dk> wrote in message news:1154681039.049388.134800(a)h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > RPSinha wrote: >> [Reposted with enlarged group list. Please leave rec.travel.air intact, >> I can only access replies there.] >> >> I am going to experiment with doing away with checked luggage and try >> traveling with just one carry-on. This will be for a few weeks, a few >> countries, everything from planes and trains to back country buses. >> So this bag needs to be pretty versatile: strong, light, easy to >> organize etc, and resistant to dust and water. I found two intriguing >> suggestions in http://www.onebag.com/bags.html : the Red Oxx Air Boss >> and Tough traveler Tri-Zip. Both are about $225. >>>> Om Kenn Rosenkranz (foertidspensionist) After fifty five years of shuttling the Atlantic over 70 tmes, and general hassling about the continent, I would not want any bag that is not strong and comfortable enough to sit on during lulls, delays, and queues. The argument about wheels or not is strange. I have a wheeled bag that I can pick up by its handle when I need to. Kids, tho, seem to embarrassed by anything other than the socially de riguer backpack. rjf
From: B Vaughan on 4 Aug 2006 13:32 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:30:36 GMT, RPSinha <rpsinha(a)null.void> wrote: >B Vaughan <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >: ... > >I don't like backpacks for the reasons you mention, but I also don't >like wheels for the reasons others mentioned. :) What will work for me >most is a shoulder bag, with a small daypack that I can carry around >within a city. > >I am open to the idea of my shoulder bag having extra straps so it >could function as a backpack when that would be convenient. However, I >have never had such a bag and do wonder if this will limit my choices >to models that might not be very good in either role, as a shoulder >bag or backpack. I had a medium-sized backpack (actually called a travel pack) whose backpack straps could be tucked away behind a zippered panel. Then it could be carried like a suitcase, or by attaching a shoulder strap. This pack didn't have any frame, neither internal nor external, but being smallish, it didn't really need any. It was light and comfortable. I don't think they make it any more. I got it from campmor, which has good inexpensive hiking and camping gear. (www.campmor.com). They only ship within the US though. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: nobody on 4 Aug 2006 13:53
B Vaughan wrote: > I don't understand the public transport thing. The human body is less > bulky around the legs than around the chest. In a packed tram, you can > always find a bit of unused real estate on the floor, while a backpack > on your back will be punching people in the face. But when the time comes for you to get on or off the bus/train, your rolling luggage will be far more disruptive on your side than the backpack on your back. This is especially true if there are stairs to navigate on/off the bus/train. Someone mentioned pulling rolling luggage on sidewalks. Isn't that a recipe to destroy the wheels ? They may be nice on a smooth airport terminal floor, but on concrete with cracks every couple of metres, those wheels won't last long, unless you are simply going from a building across the sidewalk to a waiting taxi. And it is true that a backpack is not obvious if you have an opportunity to sit. But it depends on the length of the journey. You might as well dismount the backpack and put it on floor is the journey is long. But if short, you can sit on seat with just the edge of your butt on the seat (and backpack taking the rest). -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |