Provisions: Travel stuff you need
A guide for what you need to buy, read or consume to enhance your recreation and travel experience
Buy
Genius Pack 22-Inch Carry-On Spinner Bag
$258; www.geniuspack.com
If you’re anything like me – and I certainly hope you are not – you always seem to have the wheels on your carry-on bags malfunction while rushing through airport terminals. This bag promises to solve that problem with a “wheel-base” that moves any direction you do. Here’s another plus to this piece of luggage: It has “Laundry Compression Technology,” which scrunches up your soiled laundry by “expelling unwanted air through an air-valve.”
Buy
Lonely Planet’s “Better Than Fiction 2”
$15.99; lonelyplanet.com
Four years ago, the travel site Lonely Planet published a “dead tree” anthology of travel writing by fiction writers. Now comes the sequel, and some heavy literary hitters are on board: Jane Smiley, Dave Eggers, Karen Joy Fowler, Alexander McCall Smith, and the criminally underrated Francine Prose. Well worth the purchase.
The List
“10 of America’s Hippie Hideouts”
Note that Berkeley failed to make this list:
1. Arcata
2. Eureka Springs, Arkansas
3. Missoula, Montana
4. Bisbee, Arizona
5. Ithaca, New York
6. Burlington, Vermont
7. Berea, Kentucky
8. Boulder, Colorado
9. Eugene, Oregon
10. Asheville, North Carolina
Compiled by Sam McManis/smcmanis@sacbee.com
This story was originally published March 12, 2016 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Provisions: Travel stuff you need."