 "One bag" travel, which bag is best?
"TOliver" <toliverjrFIX@Hot.rr.com> wrote in message
news:nm1Bg.52449$Cn6.39221@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> A
> black bag will literally jump off the carrousel into your hands (and the
> visible ID may cause a purloin artiste to stay his hand, not knowing
whether
> I'm looking on, ready to impale him on my swordless cane.
That's an interesting thought. I've never had any trouble picking out my
particular black back on the carrousel. I've never even seen another of the
same model TravelPro bag on the carrousel. But how could one accuse a thief
who "accidentally" picks up your black bag from among the hundreds going
'round and 'round. After all, they all look the same, right?
> Knock on wood and bless the fickle finger of Fate, but in a half century
of
> "traveling" since I left high school, I don't recall ever having been
> pick-pocketed, to have lost "stuff" from a hotel room, or to have been the
> victim of theft, from baggage or otherwise, a better record than
experienced
> at the hand of local burglars, car & residential.
My problem is forgetting and misplacing stuff. If you call me "absent
minded" I must own to it. This is why I generally travel with exactly the
same set of stuff or one of a couple of variations. With a strict routine I
tend to have a feeling for when something is missing, even when I've been 24
hours without much sleep. One time I spent about 5 minutes at the check-in
counter furiously looking for my lost tickets, only to eventually find them
in the spot I had looked at least twice before. They were in my black
leather ticket organizer in the black pocket of my black computer case.
Since then I found and purchased a shocking day-glow orange ticket organizer
which always goes in the same pocket of the same boarding bag. My luggage
not only has to carry my stuff to the other end of the trip; it also has to
help me actually get to the other end.
--
Donald R. Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net
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