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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
Manfred Aigner wrote:
You're right in most points, but a small trolley is perfect for business travelling, when you do 3-4 day trips, where you only move within airports, hotels, train stations an central urban areas.... then they are a perfect thing and since I borrowed a trolley for such a trip some years ago I don't want to miss it. Isn't it possible to buy and external bag trolley and then only use it when needing wheels by strapping the bag in the trolley? IOW...do NOT buy something built in? |
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Dan Stephenson wrote:
I've found that if you pack light you can make do with a daypack wow! that IS traveling small and light |
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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. As for colors, I like a dark green. Paul 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. Another suggestion was Rick Steves Convertable carry-on bag; $99. http://travelstore.ricksteves.com/ca...ction=product& theParentId=8&id=139 Do you have any expereince with these? Or, do you have another recommendation? Finally, do you find any particular *colors* either very good or not so good for rugged travel? (My "one bag" is likely to take more beating than if it had been just one of several bags with me.) The Red Oxx comes in 12 colors, for example: http://www.redoxx.com/catalog/carry-on/p_91018-air-boss.html Thanks. |
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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:54:25 -0500, wrote:
Dan Stephenson 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 --- -- |
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Traveller 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 |
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wrote in message oups.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 |
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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:30:36 GMT, RPSinha wrote:
B Vaughan 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 |
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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 |
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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:53:46 -0400, nobody wrote:
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. I just pick it up and carry it in those circumstances. I don't go around banging people in the face with it at least. I try not to take anything on a trip that I can't carry easily for short distances, or that I can't lift over my head. Someone mentioned pulling rolling luggage on sidewalks. Isn't that a recipe to destroy the wheels ? I've had several suitcases whose wheels have outlived the zippers and other crucial pieces. Those little tiny wheels won't last long, but most wheeled luggage has nice-sized robust 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. Not my experience. 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). That's one of the most annoying things about backpacks. Like I said, I use both, but neither has all the advantages over the other. -- 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 |
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