New luggage - Two wheels or four?

As the majority of people in airports are wheeling luggage I think they are aware of everyone else's cases as well as their own.

I'm still looking forward to tips on cutting down on clothes for my next trip!

The only person I have seen with no hand luggage on a long haul flight was DS - he wore cargo pants with pockets filled with everything he needed! This was before the stringent security checks where you have to pile everything into a tray and get it poked around.
However, he did have an enormous backpack in the hold.

Dog prams are prams for dogs. I am not being pretentious, just practical. I could lean on the pram for support, put my dog in the pram and not be carried onto the train which causes me breathlessness and put my luggage under the pram so helping also. I wouldn't let her be in it when she could walk, obviously but for safety reasons it could solve problems for me and still enable me to get away for a few days with her, which we both enjoy.

When faced with heart conditions and can't breathe well, then for some minute amount of time it is nice to feel like a normal human being and be able to go out and maybe see the sea once or twice a year and if a dog pram can get me there, then so be it.

I stood at my kitchen sink the other day, grabbing onto the sink, breathing deeply and harshly, crying. It's not often that I let it get to me but I had had enough at that moment. To keep surviving on my own, with hardly any help does get to me and I need to escape from time to time to get my head in order and breath in some sea air, and to dispell the guilty feelings that I cannot always get my dog out for walks on a regular basis when she is the only one who is loving and caring to me.

Nothing to do with wheels but I had a near lethal experience on a courtesy bus from a Manchester Airport car park a few years ago. A suitcase fell off a luggage rack when the bus went round a corner, glancing off my shoulder and landing with quite a crash. The company ignored my letters pointing out that their lugghage racks weren't secure. In the end I gave up. Hope no-one else ever had a similar experience. A small child child
could have been very badly injured.

carolmary
They certainly shouldn't be putting heavy luggage up on the rack. Find out the manager's name - go to the top if you don't get any satisfaction.
Health and Safety Executive might be interested too.

I recently swapped my old knackered 2 wheel case for a wheeled jobbie - brilliant around the airport. Only downside was that at Gatwick we have to go up a moving slope (not stairs) and last time I had to hang on to my case to stop it rolling back down the slope. But when standing in the long check in queue 4 wheels were so much easier to gently push along. And modern cases are so much lighter than older ones, so more capacity for all those books I want to read whilst away. I also made sure that my new one had an optional extension zip in case I bring back more than I take.

Go for it rubylady
It's sad that you're struggling still, breathlessness is so scary and limiting.

DH and I had to smile when we recently visited Grasmere; in the car park four cars drew up, out got the people, popped respective dogs in to their dog prams and off they walked to the coffee shop. An hour later we passed them walking along the path back to the car park.
Neither of us had seen one before.