Seats and luggage were among the two
most common products once found at rally vendor booths. In that vein, Kermit Easter- ling, inventor of the Kermit Chair, also devised a type of soft luggage which, to me, is by far the best product of its type ever conceived. His “big” bag was just the right width and I had him make one just for me. It is a somewhat bigger around version of his largest bag, allowing me to drop a com- puter case into the bag and have it sit on top of another bag so the whole thing could be zipped shut as one load. This strategy then used two “luggage inserts” one on top of the other. What do I mean by “luggage insert?”
Well, now. These “duffle bag” concepts that are all the rage have no internal structure. So rather than pack the bag, I pack the insert and put it INTO the bag. As it turns out, standard rolling airline overhead com- partment bags are the ideal size. I am not talking the ones with pouches on the front and expansion zippers and internal frame handle structures. No, back in the day, those bags were created by taking a frame as a hoop maybe six inches wide, putting canvas around it, and riveting that hoop/ box to a rolling carrier with handle. You could drill out the rivets, throw away the rolling mechanism and were left with a zip- pered canvas “box.” I am quite sure that a container store or
Walmart has some sort of modern plastic equivalent intended for general purpose storage that can be packed and then bagged. You now have the ability to pack as you would for any trip. Because it has structure this also means you can strap it down or lean on it as a back rest and stack it.
Kermit’s bags were waterproof and had
two zipper pulls which you could open half way from either side, making it is possible to open these bags even while they were strapped down. So snacks or a camera
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