[Gocamino] Duffels and walking sticks

[Richard Ferguson]

I have had good luck over the years with transporting all kinds of 
things on airplanes in Duffel bags in checked bags.  Anything like 
poles, you want to pack things around it so they are less likely to 
get bent or damaged.  Same goes for packs, with or without a frame. 
Packs tend to have all kind of straps and flaps and things to hang up 
in the conveyors, so best to have them inside a duffel.  (Or perhaps 
a heavy plastic bag).

When I arrived at my starting point, I mailed the empty duffel to 
myself at Santiago, and it was waiting when I arrived, ready for the 
trip home.

Richard


>My experience with a walking stick (and I've walked with the same 
>wonderful stick from Bardsey Island off the coast of Wales all three
>times on the Camino)  is that when they haven't required me to check 
>it (and I've offered, 'no, it's like a cane, that won't be 
>necessary') ) that somewhere along the way a security person won't 
>let it through.  Actually once it was a security person, and once it
>was the steward on the flightway right at the plane's door.
>
>The difficulty of sticks in with the luggage is that they can get 
>lost (has happened to mine).   The duffel seems like a good idea - 
>anything to make something that doesn't just slip into an out of 
>sight place in the plane's luggage compartment.
>
>love,
>donald

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