Baggie's Big Adventure: Lost in Luggage Land

By Thomas Schwendler

Keep Calm and Carry On!

It's every bag's dream to see the world. And it's every travelers' worst nightmare to lose their luggage. Sometimes you just need to 'carry on' which is exactly what Baggie does as 'unclaimed baggage.' Based on what really happens to lost airline luggage, this original story of an enchanted carpet b

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Schwendler
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781736813058

Thomas Schwendler

https://www.lostinluggageland.com/

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Baggie’s Big Adventure

Lost in Luggage Land

Tom Schwendler

Baggie's Big Adventure

Copyright © 2022 Thomas Schwendler. All Rights Reserved.

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Publisher: Tom Schwendler

https://www.lostinluggageland.com/

ISBN:

978-1-7368130-4-1 (Paperback)

978-1-7368130-5-8 (ebook)

Printed in the United States of America

Interior Design: Van-garde Imagery

Cover Illustration by Eliza Von Zerneck

"Work like you don’t need the money.

Love like you’ve never been hurt.

Dance like nobody’s watching."

—‘Satchel’ Paige, American baseball player,

not a member of the Luggage League.

Dedication

To anyone who’s ever been left holding the bag or carrying some extra baggage in their lives, which is most of us.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to my wife, Rosemary, for her support and for being the ‘master-packer’ for all family trips. Most appreciative of family and friends who may have bags under their eyes for reading all my drafts.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Baggie’s Beginnings

Chapter 2 The Cat’s Out of the Bag

Chapter 3 Packing

Chapter 4 What a Trip

Chapter 5 Time to Pack

Chapter 6 The Airport

Chapter 7 In-Flight Entertainment

Chapter 8 Lost Luggage

Chapter 9 The Unclaimed Baggage Center

Chapter 10 Another Sale

Chapter 11 Welcome to Smithfield

Chapter 12 Not Quite Home at Last

Chapter 13 Home at Last

Baggie’s Bonus Material

How to pack

Take a Lesson from Star Wars Chewbacca

Authors notes: The truth in this fiction

Luggage for Freedom

Introduction

Welcome to the House of B’Aggie, a long-time luggage emporium on the first floor of an old warehouse, where attic air soaks corners of a showroom stuffed with every kind of bag imaginable, from suit bags to satchels. Flickering tubes of light in the ceiling cast a yellow hue across the floor with a buzz that broadcasts a faint mantra that echoes everywhere.

Like leaves on tree branches, backpacks hang by their loose straps suspended from metal skeletons that stand like gnomes in a garden of luggage. Square cloth suitcases the size of lunch boxes in bright blue, yellow, and red sit idly on tabletops while the smallest of bags — wallets and change purses — lie sleeping in their wicker hammocks beside the cash register. Behind it, raised on a shelf overlooking the showroom floor, sits a cloth handbag colored by swathes of red and brown with sturdy leather handles. That bag is The B’Aggie, and here is her story.

—Bea Aggie

Proprietor, House of B’Aggie

Chapter 1

Baggie’s Beginnings

The B’Aggie or Baggie, as she is affectionally known, has earned this special place in the store as the matriarch of the B’Aggie family of luggage. She is, after all, one of the first everyday bags from B’Aggie, along with her more fashionable sister, Bling, who lives in a display case nearby. As