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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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. 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. Larry in Berkeley, California |
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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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"PeterL" wrote: Miguel Cruz wrote: "rascal" 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 |
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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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" wrote in message ... 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). |
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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
After having spent a lot of my working life trotting around the globe
with conventional luggage, I tried using backpacks after retirement and became an instant convert. My favorite backpack has a large central compartment which zips open around the entire front of the backpack for easy loading, and has an accordian-style expansion section on the bottom which can be secured in the closed position by a wraparound accordian zipper (one hopes that description is understandable). Besides the large main compartment, there is also a toiletries compartseveral and five separate smaller zip-close compartments of various sizes. I bought this in a street-front luggage store while passing through Hollywood CA for just $30, and wish now that I had bought several. I have on occasion (usually returning from trips wherein I overshopped) had it loaded with over 50kg of miscellaney. On those occasions I cinched up the hip-hugger part of the carry straps, and had little trouble carrying it once I was up, balanced, and taking the weight primarily on my hips and legs. I am 60+ years of age, and could never manage that much weight with conventional luggage outside of a smoothly-paved airport envirionment with luggage carts available. I normally travel on short trips with the expansion section of the big bag closed and the bag very lightly loaded. Packed this way, it can be carry-on luggage. Sometimes on short trips I pack a smaller backpack inside of the big one, and use the smaller one while shopping around town or in other situations where I need to carry a small amount of gear locally. If both the big bag and a supplemental smaller one end up fully packed, I find that it is possible to carry both by putting the smaller one on backwards as a front-pack. The big backpack has attachment rings on the front of the shoulder straps and I have attached carabiners to those rings. I occasionally carry some items (e.g., a laptop & case) hanging in front from those carabiners. I also tend to carry a big multi-compartment fanny-pack; usully positioned as a belly-bag or on one hip. I use that to carry items which I might need while traveling (e.g., toiletries, paperback books, travel docs & tickets, etc. etc.) but which would not fit conveniently into my pockets. |
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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:23:29 +0800, Miguel Cruz
wrote: "rascal" 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. 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 before the flight (who ever checks the expiration date on their ATM card?), I didn't have any other form of money on me, and the only bank that was prepared to sort me out was in the middle of town. Leaving aside the stupidity of the situation I'd gotten myself into, it was really no problem to do this - I just found some high ground, located the coastline, followed it, and a few hours later I was in Sultanahmet. Oh ****, that's a long way! Are you seriously telling us you only had one card? I have 3, plus a bit of cash at any time. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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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) |
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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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 |
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Dave Frightens Me wrote:
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 before the flight (who ever checks the expiration date on their ATM card?), I didn't have any other form of money on me, and the only bank that was prepared to sort me out was in the middle of town. Leaving aside the stupidity of the situation I'd gotten myself into, it was really no problem to do this - I just found some high ground, located the coastline, followed it, and a few hours later I was in Sultanahmet. Oh ****, that's a long way! Are you seriously telling us you only had one card? I have 3, plus a bit of cash at any time. I had suffered a spate of expirations in prior months. A couple weeks after arriving in Turkey I was going to meet the person who had my mail, which contained some new cards. At the time my ATM card expired, I was just about to leave town. I went to the local branch of my bank and got them to send me some money to pay my rent, and a bit extra, but other expenses came up and ate away my buffer. Then the bank was closed until flight departure time. I could either change the date or just go ahead and see what happened. And what's life if you don't just go ahead and see what happens? Turns out I got a walk in Istanbul that few people do, and had a very interesting time with some extremely nice bank staff there who stayed en masse until hours after closing (even though only one of them plus the guard would have been enough) to get my money sorted out - and feed me strange Turkish food. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu |
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rascal wrote:
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. Not tourists. The police should use more discretion than that. If the police see someone with a backpack they should ask them the purpose for their visit. If they say "tourist" or "business" or something then let them through. If they say "I'm a traveller" then the egotistical low-life travelling around on his parent's money should be put out of our misery as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
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Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:23:29 +0800, Miguel Cruz wrote: "rascal" 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. 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 before the flight (who ever checks the expiration date on their ATM card?), I didn't have any other form of money on me, and the only bank that was prepared to sort me out was in the middle of town. Leaving aside the stupidity of the situation I'd gotten myself into, it was really no problem to do this - I just found some high ground, located the coastline, followed it, and a few hours later I was in Sultanahmet. Oh ****, that's a long way! Are you seriously telling us you only had one card? I have 3, plus a bit of cash at any time. ????? What bank is issuing ATM cards that expire? My ATM never does. And no need to carry more than one. I also carry a few Credit Cards that you can always use to withdraw cash. |
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