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Adventure Travel Luggage

Our bags logged thousands of miles–through airports and atop donkeys–and we came back with these top picks, from gigantic rollers and impervious duffels to laptop carriers and packable organizers.

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KE
Feb 28, 2012

Much of the world has a 44lb/20kg allowance for airline checked baggage in coach... 10+lbs for the empty bag? Does not compute! Wheeled luggage and adventure travel do not mix.

Ken in IL
Feb 21, 2012

These heavy wheeled monsters are a pain unless you are taking a cab everywhere. I prefer a backpack w/o wheels like the REI Tech Tour. You can carry it easily in crowds, up/down stairs, on public transit. Toting everywhere you go isn't much more effort than carrying your daypack of necessities. We even used to tour carrying our luggage - but in this time of anal bombers, they won't get thru all the detection systems and there are no check rooms anymore.

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