Air travel w/ backpacks

[Mary Pennicooke]

When I bought my pack, several of the guys that worked there suggested that
I get a "bag" for it.
Their reasoning (from experience) was that when flying, a pack is a sign
for:
  ALL MY BELONGINGS ARE IN HERE!!!
i.e.- easy to steal from.
I even found one pack that had a sack built into it that would cover it just
for flying- or whatever the traveling mode might be.

I plan on buying a cheap bag to send it in and worry about the way home at
that time.
Also I want all the straps confined too, so for me a cheap nylon sack does
the trick.
Mary Pennicooke
Ashland, OR

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Ashton" <CHETASHTONaAOL.COM>
To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Air travel w/ backpacks


> Has anyone had recent experience traveling with backpacks to Spain.  Will
be
> traveling Iberia in mid-Sept. and wonder if airlines require packs to
wraped
> or can they go loose.  Thanks...Jim