Looking for a good way to identify your bags on the conveyor at the airport? I've been creating a theme for my bags for a couple of years now and it has been expanding onto the bags that I bought when I was in Las Vegas.
My scheme? Dragons. Around the end of the conveyor comes a half dozen matching black travel bags and one with a red dragon soaring across the side. Yup, it's fairly easy for me to tell at a glance which one is mine.
It is a theme I began almost by accident a year ago when I was repairing a travel bag that had a tear in it. I used some iron on cotton material to repair the tear and realized that there was no reason why I could not personalize the bag even more. So, I began printing dragons on iron on transfer paper designed for use on dark material (my bags are black).
It turned out looking very nice. I added in another bag this year, a duffel that zippers down to an inch thick that acts as an emergency spare bag for souvenirs on return trips.
I will be adding more dragons on my new bags between now and my next trip, as well as personalized name plates printed out and ironed on the inside of the bags. And, new for this year, at least one bag (probably a carry on bag) will have old fashioned style luggage tags like they used to slap onto steamer trunks traveling overseas. I will create them on the computer based on places I have been to commemorate the things I have seen and done with my friends and family.
Like all good journals this journal has changed over the years. Once a personal journal, then a travel journal I have returned this journal to the spirit of what a blog is and moved the travel aspect to one of my websites.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
1 comment:
NOTICE: I love trying to make this a good travel journal and while I know I fall short of my dream, I also spend a LOT of time pondering and rereading comments to see if I should post or delete as robot SPAM. So... a few rules on the comments.
I want anyone, not only Blogger members or Open ID members to be able to comment, however... Please sign your comment, if you do not it will not be published. Anonymous comments help no one and are unreliable.
Also, if you have a strong enough opinion to post a comment, please take time and make it informative - if you had a good time somewhere detail what you mean, don't just say "This place was great!!! Loved the buffet!", and if you had a lousy time please detail it, don't just say "This place sucked and the pool smelled! Ruined my vacation!" I want to feel as if you really were there when I read your comments.
If you have a website or blog where you detailed your experience it is even better, include a link to your website or blog - just make sure it is not to a SPAM site made to endorse/defame a location, because I will delete any that do not strike me as being legitimate personal sites.
Thank you for your help in making it easier for me to know what is robotic SPAM and what are real personal reviews.
As ever, neat.
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