"PLastify" your backpack at he airport

[wisdom's aspirant]

I have been wondering how to treat my pack. I finally decided to wrap my
sleeping bag (just a light fleece bag) around the pack and then wrap the
whole thing in a rather heavy old plastic tablecloth tied with light rope.
I can trash the tablecloth and rope in Madrid. And the whole thing can be
opened by airport security if they choose to do so.  To return home, I'll
just buy something ( maybe even another tablecloth) to put it in again.

Deanna

At 10:16 PM 4/19/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everybody:
>
>We are leaving in 14 days! we are very excited but haven't even gotten the
>most important stuff for the trip -boots and backpacks - yet. So, I may be
>asking you several questions in the next days.
>
>So, reading the posts in the archives, I came across all the questions
>about if it is convenient or not to ckeck the backpack in , if it is
>convenient to buy a bag for it and so forth.
>
>Maybe you already know it, but just in case, there is a system in the
>airports, a machine, where for 5 bucks you can get your backpack wrapped
>in plastic. I don't like it particualrly because I try to avoid the use of
>plastic (the "plastic pollution" as much as I can. But it is one more
>option, and I have use it several times for long trips that required me
>transfers I Chile at the Pudahuel, they cut 2 different pieces of luggage
>I have, one of them was brand new. I don't know if that's something they
>do to still thing from your bag (part of my clothing looks as if they had
>been trying to pull it out) or if it just something that they do to
>argentinean travelers. I've heard that story hundreds of time.
>
>We'll check out our backpacks after having them wrapped this time.
>
>Lia
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