Provisions: Enhance your recreation and travel experience

BUY

▪ Pelican ProGear Luggage

Some of you may be old enough to remember the classic television commercial in which heavy-duty luggage – can’t remember which manufacturer – was thrown into a gorilla’s cage and survived a serious mauling. These days, it’s airline baggage handlers who treat your luggage like quadrupedal primates. What you need is something sturdier, such as Pelican ProGear luggage. Sure, it’s pricey, but its website claims it’s “crush proof,” able to withstand 1,500 pounds of pressure. Another plus: No zippers that will break, only lockable latches.

BUY

▪ “The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Years,” by Ian Whitelaw

Lots of books tell you how to fly fish; some memoirs tell you how the sport carries deep, psychic benefits. But this book is steeped in fly fishing history, from the 15th century to today, detailing the evolution of everything from rods to hooks. And, yes, for those of you hard-core fly-fishing types, there are scores of photographs and illustrations of flies and how to make them. My personal aesthetic favorite: “Lefty’s Deceiver.”

THE LIST

▪ “8 Underwater Restaurants You Must Visit Before You Die”

The foodie website Spoonuniversity.com enlisted writer Halley Rose Meslin to go undercover and down deep to find the world’s best underwater restaurants. Her findings:

1. Subsix (20 feet below the Indian Ocean (Niyama Resort, the Maldives)

2. Ithaa Undersea Restaurant (at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Resort)

3. Sea (Anantara Kihavah Villas Resort, Maldives)

4. Guinness Deep Sea Bar (Baltic Sea, Stockholm Archipelago)

5. Cargo Hold Restaurant (Durban, South Africa)

6. Al Mahara (United Arab Emirates)

7. Atrium Bar (Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin)

8. Aquarium Restaurant (Nashville)

THE TWEET

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates): “How embarrassing is it that husband’s replica of Alcatraz prison-issue blue shirt was stolen from out of his backpack on Oakland ferry?”

Compiled by Sam McManis, smcmanis@sacbee.com

This story was originally published April 11, 2015 at 5:00 PM with the headline "Provisions: Enhance your recreation and travel experience."