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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:23:29 +0800, Miguel Cruz
wrote: 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. Inside train stations and airports, wheels are much more attractive than backpacks. Once I get to a place, I rarely use my luggage until I leave again, so that a good part of the time that I'm using my luggage, I'm in a train station or an airport. On most city streets, wheeled luggage works just fine, and if the streets are crowded, your backpack is likely to be bumping into people all the time. If you have to (or want to) sit down, a backpack is a real pain in the ass. Your stuff tends to get less messed up in a suitcase. I can't see that getting in and out of vehicles is easier with a backpack. Unless the backpack is very small, you're going to have to take it off, unless you remain standing inside the vehicle. If not, you'll have all the inconvenience of a suitcase added to the inconvenience of taking the backpack off and putting it back on. I use either a backpack or a wheeled suitcase, depending on the circumstances. The backpack will definitely be better if you're doing off-road hiking. The wheeled luggage tends to be better in urban locations with good sidewalks. The main thing is to keep it small. Both forms of luggage are very inconvenient if they're large. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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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. |
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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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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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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"One bag" travel, which bag is best?
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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