New luggage

Ever since 9/11, our luggage has gotten completely thrashed from airline flights. We got some pretty sturdy luggage when we got married (a DECADE ago!!!) and it held up really well… seeing us through multiple trips to The Promised Land© (AKA Utah and Idaho) as well as the occasional vacation. I don’t know if it was something about heightened terror risk or what, though, but after 9/11, our zippers have been damaged (although that might be because they’ve occasionally had to contain more mass than Marlon Brando’s pants in the later years), and now random wires are protruding from them which makes it hard to wheel them through the airport without snagging the carpeting. I don’t know what goes on behind the closed doors of luggage handling at the country’s airports, but I’m imagining a special task force armed with belt sanders, ice picks, hydraulic vices, and gnawing rodents to “de-Al Qaida” the luggage.

In response to this, Margaret and I saw a luggage sale this weekend and decided to invest in some useful carry-on baggage in an attempt to keep our stuff out of the hands of the baggage handlers. Now our biggest challenge will be to pack lightly enough that all our stuff will fit in the smaller bags. That’ll be easy when we go to a nude vacation in St. Croix, but we’ll see what happens when we have to pack for a winter vacation in Utah. Maybe this was Margaret’s way to encourage more nude vacations in the Caribbean.