Here’s a comment from OBOWer Alan that’s worthy of its own post:
Out of curiousity I have applied what I have learned reading this website and the kindred www.onebag.com, over the last few days, to my last trip to Hawaii during September.
That was made using an expensive and very lightweight large rolling suitcase, a Rimowa Salsa 29-inch,which costs twice what the Redoxx Air Boss costs. I recall that my case outbound came to 43 lbs. as measured by my Balanzza digital scale, (including the pillow I added to fill out the top of the plastic case, trying to avoid its being damaged) My wife’s Rimowa by the way, came off the carousel in Kahului with a split in one corner.)
By looking carefully at what I actually USED (or needed) during that warm weather trip, including a few alternative choices, I find that it all could have easily fit, for the entire eight or nine days we were on Maui, into something like the Air Boss, an outfit which including that suitcase, which would have come to…17 lbs.
Clearly I have been doing something WRONG. I don’t intend to make the same errors in the future. Interestingly, when I traveled to and from college, and then medical school, 1967 through 1975, the suitcases I had were fabric Boyt cases, with zippers, without wheels, of course, that my late mother bought for my sister and myself.
Plus ca change, c’est la meme chose!
To which we can only say ‘bon voyage’