Eagle Creek's High Tech Travel Gear
The travel bag has certainly evolved from the big heavy metal and wooden contraptions of days of yore to the attractive and more manageable luggage pieces of present time. Melanie Stevens writing in the Union-Tribune takes a look at the Eagle Creek company which has been manufacturing travel luggage for the last three decades. 'For the past 30 years, the maker of luggage, backpacks and travel accessories has been encouraging wayward wanderers – whether business travelers or adventurers – to go light on the packing and heavy on the experience. By the early 1980s, company founders Steve Barker and his wife, Nona, realized that designing gear for various kinds of travel, whether vacationing at an island resort or rafting on the Nile, was a segment of the market that at the time was largely untapped.'