We're going places and my wife has grabbed her favorite travel companion for the trip, her rustler backpack. It's not been a full that it's been part of our line, but already my wife has latched onto it. She says it's easy to organize, holds everything she needs and well it just gives her a sense of security.
These days a trip to the airport is not without anxiety. It’s not the fear of flying that rattles the nerves, but more so the fear of not getting off the ground. If your plane is not the first flight out that morning there is the inevitable concern of how weather and flight crew shortages may affect your flight. First-world problems for sure, but problems nonetheless if you have a connecting flight, a sales appointment, or maybe a non-refundable vacation plan.
As it happens, on our last trip to a trade show where we were exhibiting, we were smack in the middle of the throes of airport madness. So maybe that’s hyperbole, but all I can tell you is all my would-be fellow passengers, and I were in a mad dash to the ticketing counter when our gate announcement that should’ve been to board had been replaced with news of a flight cancellation.
It sounds like a Alfred Hitchcock movie.
But it seems a few birds flew into one of the jets as our plane landed and never left the engine. Yes, we could see our plane outside the window of our gate, but the only place it was going was for repair. We dodged the storms that were blanketing pockets of the country, and the flight crew was ready to go, but we couldn’t escape the birds.
Where am I going with this and what does this have to do with the grey leather and black canvas backpack positioned at my wife’s feet? Well, as I said when I started that’s our Rustler Backpack. With flap pockets on each side, they’re the perfect place for airport snacks, like trail mix and power bars, and are easy to access after going through TSA screening. There’s a padded pocket for a notebook or laptop and there’s plenty of room in the main compartment for a change of clothes plus the possibly needed sweater for those cooler flights. Of course, that’s if we actually get on the flight.
As for design?
The Rustler Backpack has a contemporary flair with its grey leather shoulder straps. It’s not your crazy uncle’s survivalist backpack but do you really want to look like you’ve just been loaded up like a pack mule? That's a rhetorical question, don't answer that. So, we prioritized both fashion and function. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for in a travel piece - a bag that looks good and does the job? If you ask me, it’s the grey leather piping that outlines the front and back of the backpack that really gives it that pop. You feel good wearing it. And on a day like we were having, you need things to feel good about.
The best-case scenario for flying out of Ft. Myers was going to be the following night. No flights in Sarasota, Tampa, or Ft. Lauderdale, so we were off to Miami for a flight later that night. My wife is pulling open the grey leather Velcro pocket and handing me some much-needed trail mix. I’m wondering why the airline mechanics couldn’t clean a couple of birds out of an engine in six hours. Six hours sitting at the same gate isn’t a day at the beach, but it beats an expensive and long Uber ride to Miami.
In the column of things that we did get right that day, taking an Uber to Ft. Myers airport goes right under my wife choosing the Rustler Backpack as her travel piece. The last thing I needed was to have to fly back through Miami on the return trip.
If the Rustler Backpack that is sitting in front of me could talk, it would say “Don’t turn this into an Uber ad!
Remember it’s supposed to be about me! Your wife has been using me as her perfect bag for airport trips longer than you have been using Uber. Remember I’m a hands-free travel bag option… if I wasn't resting so comfortably on your shoulders it wouldn’t be that easy to call your Uber.”
Without question, it had been a long day but was I really listening to her bag talk to me? Did it really happen? This must be what people mean when they say an inanimate object was speaks to them.
Inanimate Object?
I prefer backpack, Rustler Backpack, the Rustler! It doesn’t matter whether you call me knapsack, backpack or rucksack as they say across the pond. I am a fresh take on an everyday travel need.
$318.00
Dimensions: 15”x 8”x 17" This backpack is the perfect combination of style and functionality, offering a spacious and compartmentalized design to accommodate all your essentials. The oversized bag features top-grain leather and a durable black canvas exterior that exudes a… read moreRustler Backpack
