Originally Posted by
Darbs
I think tcl is right. The bag you pick all depends on you and your needs. I use different bags for different trips. Quick overnight or 2 night trips on a plane for work and I'll take a rolling bag and my briefcase. For car trips I usually take a larger duffel bag because I'm just going to carry it from the car to the house/hotel. And then if it is a longer trip that involves flying, I'll take my ebags weekender and a smaller personal bag. I can fit more in it and I need something that I can wear like a backpack. You'll find most of us here have a bit of an "addiction" if you will to luggage and we all use different ones for different trips. If I'm flying with my boss and her kids, it is always the Weekender because I need the extra hands for the kids. It all depends on the situation. Best of luck though!
Welcome to Flyertalk. I think the bolded parts really sum it up. I use a variety of different bags and combinations of bags. As someone pointed out on another thread about carryon bags, for those of us who travel a lot, it makes a lot of sense not to have the same combo or same bag for everything. For instance, I may carry a small roller and a briefcase if depending on everything from how long I will have to walk from gate to customs and immigration to how I feel. If I am worn out I am much more likely to take a roller. If I know I have to use a briefcase bag when I arrive I am more likely to take a briefcase and another bag.
I use a Tristar for short (up to 3 days) where I dont have to take a notebook computer and 1-2 days when I do need a notebook. Above that, next is a Red Oxx Metro and another bag. On my last two longer trips, 5 days in Tokyo/Kyoto and 5 in Montreal, in both cases the second bag was a Skytrain. On a similar trip before I uses an 18 in BR rolling cabin bag as the other carryon. I find that more and more though, I am using two non-rolling bags.
I have a trip the week after next, 4 days in Taipei and one in STL, that I am thinking about bags for now. I will likely need a notebook computer. Im in first from JFK to NRT then business to Taipei. Same on the way back although a domestic first segment as well. I am thinking of the Red Oxx Metroand a B&R medium satchel or the Skytrain, I am getting convinced that two non rolling bags is a lot easier to carry than one bag twice as heavy. Some possibility of the rolling cabin bag but I doubt it. I really try to think each trip through and anticipate what I will encounter, from on board storage to walls at the airport to train platforms and whatever. Always an adventure
