i. love. bags.
No really, I mean I have some sort of spiritual affinity to the concept of containing and taking it with.
1) I have used the same Land's End briefcase for the last, oh, 17 years or so
2) I have a Land's End garment bag for when I need to take a suit or jacket.
3) I have a great Eastpak backpack (black), which is a great utility bag (it recently served as my camera, et. al. container on a trip to Chicago last November).
4) An Eastpak messenger bag which is gathering dust but is just too cool to part with.
5) A generic rolling rectangle which serves as my 'weekender'.
6) An awesome Domke camera bag for my main camera (I say 'my'... work owns the camera, I own the bag, and technically, it's my wife's camera bag)
7) 2 other camera bags for ancillary camera equipment.
8) My recently rediscovered (hiding on back of shelf) Eastpak backpack (drab green) with tons of zipper pockets which was the mainstay of my undergraduate career.
Being a 'handy' sort-of-fellow, I naturally have more toolboxes and toolbags than I can count (well, that's an exaggeration - I could count them all if I knew where they all were [workbench, shed, truck, etc.]). My son gave me a super-sweet metal toolbox for Christmas - it will be my 'grill box' for holding my summer grill tools and paraphernalia.
OK, so you're getting the picture.... like, what's up with me? It just seems like the coolest thing to be able to pack it with. (We had a pretty cool Eddie Bauer diaper rig....
It's not like I have to pack a bag wherever I go.... most of the time I only have a few things in my pockets. I don't even have a gym bag. Objectively speaking - I travel pretty light.
It's the idea of taking it with me, not actually taking it with me. My toolboxes each have a function, as do my camera bags. My 2 backbacks are interchangeable. The messenger bag is the only one that isn't getting regular use.
And the rolling bag in the photo. I bought it to go to Italy in 2001. It worked so-so for me. And I don't know what specifically was deficient in it's function... it rolls, has backpack straps, it has extra cinch-straps for 'over stuffing', and the outside 'pocket' unzips off the main bag and becomes a day pack. Cool, I know...Something just didn't 'vibrate' well for me. It went to my neighbor who is using for his trip to visit his uncle in California.
Maybe he wants a messenger bag, too.
~uncollecting dad
Maybe it's a man thing! My wife says I have a fetish for bags--duffels, packs, totes, you name it. Just received a cool messenger bag that will replace a daypack, also a sexy Mountainsmith tote. You can never have too many bags, but you can give too many away. Remember: he who dies with the most bags wins.
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