CARRY-ONS: Road testing a manly bag

Pictures courtesy Skyroll.com The Product: SkyRoll Garment Bag from SkyRoll, $109. Also availabe at the Men’s Wearhouse. The Features: A triangular-shaped shoulder bag, the SkyRoll is 22″ long x 9″ in diameter; the detachable garment bag that wraps around the main cylinder measures 47″ x 22″ Weight: Four pounds, empty. Fabric: 1200 denier ballistic fabric. Available, [...]

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CARRY-ONS: Travel Underwear - Road testing unmentionables

The Product: Women’s Give and Go Bikini Brief, from Ex-Officio, $18. The Features: Nylon & spandex, lightweight, breathable, odor-resistant, wicking and quick-drying - 2-4 hours, according to the company. The Test: Who, me, travel without matching bra and panties? Unheard of - but for the sake of journalism, willing to give it a go. Took the [...]

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Check no more?

Heck if the airlines haven’t found yet another way to $25-dollar us to death: The majors have annouced you’ll have to pay $25 to check a second bag.   While I get the fact they are trying to recoup fuel costs, I also believe they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. The policy will [...]

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Basic black no more

Left to right: Zuca’s Pro carry-on - a hip and organized way to travel - with individual packing cubes that stack up inside the wheeled carry-on base; a business case for her from Hartmann’s new Regatta line, which offers purse-styled business cases and wheeled carry-ons in red, cream and navy pebbled leather - all with a polka-dot lining; [...]

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Cleared for take-off?

Ah, cell phones - we all can’t live without them, but do we really want cell phone use cleared for take-off? The last bastion of relative peace in business travel - flight time - may soon be a thing of the past, with some airlines already offering in-flight Wi-Fi - and others in the testing phase of in-flight cell phones.  God [...]

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