Carry On Baggage

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:50:26 +0100, Julian Fowler
<julian@bellevue-barn.org.uk> wrote:

> What else do people travel with? (A
>question that also exercises me watching people struggle to remove two
>massive suitcases per person from carousels).

Personally, my baggage nightmare is all photographic equipment, props,
backdrops, and so on.

The cameras (and usually all the lenses) travel in the cabin -- not
because they're particularly fragile in their case(s), but because if
they go missing, it's an expensive nuisance to replace them (insurance
notwithstanding).

>Julian

Malc.

In article <kr9ijvofntib09jep258ppg77as1rckthg@>,
Julian Fowler <julian@bellevue-barn.org.uk> wrote:
>
>What puzzles me is what counts as "valuable" that you have to put into
>checked luggage ...

I can see that you and I frequent very different types of clothes
shop ;-)

It's very easy to have a couple of thousand pounds worth of
clothes, shoes and makeup in your checked luggage if you're
planning on going out somewhere nice for dinner or have a
suit packed!

Ang

xor31@netscape.net (XOR) wrote in message news:<a893915f.0308141741.2aa8a041@ com>...
> oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com (me) wrote in message news:<73af7090.0308141155.64361cfd@ com>...
[snip]
> > No suits, no formal restaurants, one size fits all kinda world. Dull.
>
>
> LOL!
>
> Don't get out much, do you? Kind of the opposite I'd say!
>
> I can guarantee the vast majority of men and women I interact with on
> a daily basis own no more than 1, maybe 2 pieces of more formal
> attire, and life is anything but 'same old, same old.'
>
> There's more to the world than suits and formal restaurants (tho I do
> like the occassions to dress up myself)

And there is more to life than T-shirts and jeans. This subthread
got started because someone expressed the desire not to own suits
and to eschew fancy reastaurants. What I suggest is to embrace the
entire range equally and enthusiastically.

oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com (me) wrote in message news:<73af7090.0308160738.1399054c@ com>...
> xor31@netscape.net (XOR) wrote in message news:<a893915f.0308141741.2aa8a041@ com>...
> > oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com (me) wrote in message news:<73af7090.0308141155.64361cfd@ com>...
> [snip]
> > > No suits, no formal restaurants, one size fits all kinda world. Dull.
> >
> >
> > LOL!
> >
> > Don't get out much, do you? Kind of the opposite I'd say!
> >
> > I can guarantee the vast majority of men and women I interact with on
> > a daily basis own no more than 1, maybe 2 pieces of more formal
> > attire, and life is anything but 'same old, same old.'
> >
> > There's more to the world than suits and formal restaurants (tho I do
> > like the occassions to dress up myself)
>
> And there is more to life than T-shirts and jeans.

heh. I'm thinking more sarongs and longyis.

This subthread
> got started because someone expressed the desire not to own suits
> and to eschew fancy reastaurants. What I suggest is to embrace the
> entire range equally and enthusiastically.

And my point is that the desire to not wear suits hardly fits into a
"one size fits all kind of world." Not even close.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:37:04 +0100, Phil <Phil_Anderer@m>
wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:12:18 -0700, Malcolm Weir <malc@gelt.org>
>wrote:
>
>>The cameras (and usually all the lenses) travel in the cabin -- not
>>because they're particularly fragile in their case(s), but because if
>>they go missing, it's an expensive nuisance to replace them (insurance
>>notwithstanding).
>Also because if they contain batteries, you *must* take them as cabin
>baggage.

On which carrier(s)?

AA only cares about wet cell batteries (which are prohibited). They
are quite happy with my stash of AA-sized (!) NiMH batteries in the
checked baggage, as were QF, JL, and CX, and CO! The latter group
have also dealt with large battery-powered strobes for underwater
use...

>Phil

Malc.