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Pack ‘n’ play with Trunki suitcase

By Chris Erskine
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Eventually, the entire world will be made of plastic. To that end, check out the first ride-on suitcase for kids, the Trunki -- a triumph of toys, travel and polypropylene. This light, rugged little suitcase is half toy, half suitcase. Your kids can pull it through airports or grab hold of the horns and push themselves along as if on a scooter.

Our 5-year-old was so proud of having his own luggage that he packed it himself and wheeled it across parking lots and to the hotel room. His mother found the latches stiff and difficult to use, yet it made enough of a difference in our load of luggage to make it worthwhile. $45 from Magmatic Ltd., (888) 873-6395, www.trunki.net.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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