When you’re on the road your backpack becomes your best friend and your worst enemy. When you drop your bag at check-in and it disappears into the hands of those scary, evil baggage handlers and into the abyss of the baggage carousel you are so happy and delighted to be reunited with your bag at the other end. I always hold my breath when I land in a new country, “please be there, please be there”.
But when you have to lug that bag through windy cobbled streets, onto boiling hot metros and up stairs because the lift always happens to be broken, you curse that bag. Your friendship soon turns sour when you have to pay £140 in excess baggage to get your bag on a 2 hour Ryanair flight (trust me it happened on the way to Portugal).
Recently my bag died and is now in a rubbish bin somewhere in Lagos. My two year relationship with my TK Max bag for £35 came to an end when the zip broke. The invention that is the zip amazes me, such a simple little thing but if it breaks, you’re a gonner.
I lived without my Antler bag for a couple of months because I couldn’t be bothered dragging it up the hill to my new house on a hangover. So I left it in a friends house and lived out of a teeny tiny backpack. But recently I rescued it, bought some duct tape and finally laid it to rest.
Bring on the beast. The porn of luggage, I bought myself a new Dakine, split level, roller bag. It wasn’t easy to find a bag here in Lagos, it was either a hard suitcase from one of the numerous Chinese shops or a 169 euro all singing all dancing bag.
Now Ive gone split level I’m never going back!
This monster holds 65 litres of stuff, and the split level means its so easy to access all my belongings. I had an hour of fun organising all my belongings into the neat little pockets. A section for my toiletries, a section for my electronics, a section for my shoes and a section for my clothes. How organised am I?!!!! I had to get something on wheels, I’m only 5ft tall and rediculously tiny, if I carried a backpack and fell over I’d be a tortoise.
To all you backpackers out there, go split level, it’s so much easier and saves you digging into your bag every time you want to find something.
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