On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:35:58 -0500, Wambat
wrote:

I am going to experiment with doing away with checked luggage and try
traveling with just one carry-on.

Many airlines are now enforcing the old rule that a carryon may not
weigh more than seven kilos. But they will check it if it does. You
may want to be ready to take out anything that you do not want checked.

Why not just wear almost all your clothes on to the plane? If you plan
you can wear your bigger clothes over the smaller clothes. This is
just to get ON to the plane. As soon as the plane as taken off (perhaps
before) you zip to the bathroom and remove everything and put it in a
bag. When you leave you just carry the extra bag with your carry-on
bag. What can they do? You're leaving the plane. For a few minutes
of discomfort, surely its worth it to be able to bring a lot more stuff
with you without the risks or expense of checked luggage. Another idea
is a pack/bag that shrinks to fit carry-on airline specs, yet expands
to much larger dimensions for ease of packing and storage when
traveling by road. Another idea is to have a bag of heavier items hung
around your neck that is the width of your chest/stomach area. This is
under a baggy shirt or light jacket. Another way of sneaking stuff on
the plane. In fact one could rig up a body bag sort of thing that
wraps all the way around you under a loose jacket that could carry a
lot of (non-bulky) weight with properly designed pockets. Certainly a
laptop computer could be hanging on your chest. Remember, its only to
get on the plane. Not for the entire flight. It would be a hassle at
the scanner area of course and would raise a lot of eyebrows.

Check out this guy: he takes 1300 items on his person packed in his
jacket and pants. He's a nut but he's got some great ideas. I wonder
how long it takes them to check 1300 items?

Reading this makes me think of old Laurel and Hardy movies.

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