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<font size=3>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.<br><br>
Deanna<br><br>
At 10:16 PM 4/19/03 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi everybody:<br><br>
We are leaving in 14 days! we are very excited but haven't even gotten
the<br>
most important stuff for the trip -boots and backpacks - yet. So, I may
be<br>
asking you several questions in the next days.<br><br>
So, reading the posts in the archives, I came across all the
questions<br>
about if it is convenient or not to ckeck the backpack in , if it
is<br>
convenient to buy a bag for it and so forth.<br><br>
Maybe you already know it, but just in case, there is a system in
the<br>
airports, a machine, where for 5 bucks you can get your backpack
wrapped<br>
in plastic. I don't like it particualrly because I try to avoid the use
of<br>
plastic (the "plastic pollution" as much as I can. But it is
one more<br>
option, and I have use it several times for long trips that required
me<br>
transfers I Chile at the Pudahuel, they cut 2 different pieces of
luggage<br>
I have, one of them was brand new. I don't know if that's something
they<br>
do to still thing from your bag (part of my clothing looks as if they
had<br>
been trying to pull it out) or if it just something that they do to<br>
argentinean travelers. I've heard that story hundreds of time.<br><br>
We'll check out our backpacks after having them wrapped this
time.<br><br>
Lia</font></blockquote></html>