Re: Backpack Advice

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cloudsteppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, I will be travelling around Thailand & Indonesia for 4/5 months
> from January and then on to Australia/New Zealand for a year,
> 
> I am currently looking at what backpack to buy, what is the best/most
> practical etc if anyone has any views/opinions i would be grateful to
> hear them, if u consider one to be the best or any info from
> experience with your own pack i would love to hear it, Thanks in
> advance,
> 
> Cheers

I have a 'travel pack' from Northface, called Gallileo.  I hear it is
out of production, but found it well-made, comfortable all strapped-up,
with lots of features.  There is likely a replacement for this pack
from them.  It is what I used for my big 3month trip.

If you have an outdoors store in town like REI or Whole Earth, stop by
and do test-wearings of all the different packs.  Test with simulated
weight in it.  If it isn't comfortable in the 10 minutes in the store,
it won't after an hour.

I went with a travel pack instead of a full fledged backpack because I
was vacation, not camping.  A travel pack is a pack with an internal
frame and can hide all the zippers so you can carry it by a center
handle like a suitcase.

-- 
Dan Stephenson
Photos and movies from my 3-month European vacation and Wales 2003 at
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda