On the Road Again …

Well, actually, on the sea again. I’ll be leaving tomorrow for a 3-day weekender Carnival cruise from Long Beach down to Ensenada, Mexico and then back. It’s a stitching cruise put together by my LNS, and I’m really looking for to it! There are about 20 of us going, and I’ll be rooming with my good buddy Darla.

In preparation for the trip, I headed over to Target tonight to pick up a few travel size goods. There was a who aisle full of options, but I finally found everything I needed.

I also found something else I didn’t necessarily need but have been wanting. I picked up a new piece of luggage. The fabric on the side of my largest bag (28″ pullman) in my current set got ripped a few years ago during a flight down to Mazatlan. It recently got torn again back October during my trip to Hawaii.

I’d previously just kept a piece of duct tape over the ripped fabric since the bag itself was still structurally sound. The duct tape actually made it pretty quick to find on the baggage carousel as well. After the latest rip though, it would mean a piece of tape going pretty much the entire height of the bag, so I decided it was probably time to just fork over the money and get a new one.

I ended up with a 24″ upright on four 360 degree spinning wheels. It’s by Swiss Gear from Wenger (the Swiss Army Knife people) My previous bag only had two wheels on one edge which meant tipping it over to wheel it around, so I still had to deal with a good portion of the weight of the bag/contents. With the four wheel system, I don’t have to do that. All I have to do it control the direction of where it’s rolling. Yay!!

There is actually a smaller wheeled duffle bag that matches the pullman. I didn’t get it for this trip, but think I may go back and pick it up at some point. Having those two pieces would pretty much handle all of my luggage needs and I could donate the four pieces, not counting the torn one, from my other set to Goodwill.

Well, it’s time for me to get into bed. I still have some more packing to do in the morning before heading over to the port to get on the ship.

I do have a couple of other photos that I want to share, so I’ll set those to publish while I’m away. Once I get back on Monday, I’ll likely be sharing cruise pics for at least a couple of days next week.

Have a great weekend!