{"id":509,"date":"2006-06-09T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=509"},"modified":"2006-06-09T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T13:43:07","slug":"getting-your-pack-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/09\/getting-your-pack-on-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your pack on a plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.rec.hiking\/browse_frm\/thread\/711349d0188a92bf\/\">A thread at alt.rec.hiking<\/a> discusses the usual issues of whether to take a fuel bottle on a plane (in a word: no) and what to do to avoid pack straps getting caught in baggage-handling machinery. This looked like an interesting tip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we have done is show up at the airport with a couple of boxes of Saran<br \/>\nWrap in our carry on, wear the backpacks to the checkout line, then take out<br \/>\nthe Saran Wrap and wrap our backpacks with it making it several layers thick<br \/>\nand pulling it tight as we do it.  We found this to work very well, is<br \/>\nfairly cheap, and we don&#8217;t have to go find a special place at the airport<br \/>\nwhere they provide some sort of service or sell a box or whatever.  We have<br \/>\ndone this with child car seats also with really good results. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where would this world be without duct tape and Saran wrap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at alt.rec.hiking discusses the usual issues of whether to take a fuel bottle on a plane (in a word: no) and what to do to avoid pack straps getting caught in baggage-handling machinery. This looked like an interesting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/09\/getting-your-pack-on-a-plane\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}