- People will look at you as though you are some kind of freak carrying something dangerous. I don't know why, nor can I understand why no one asked me about it, but it's apparently very, VERY suspicious.
- Security, surprisingly, will not care like you think they will. I even have cheese grater pads on my stirrups, which I think could be some kind of weapon. No problemo, send 'er on through.
- On the note of stirrups: I have the black Italian carbon ones. If you have metal ones, CHECK THEM. You do not want to carry them around, and I have heard that they can be taken, since you could swing it at someone and smush their head like a hardboiled egg. The latter part being my interpretation, not the TSA.
- Even if you want to risk the security with the stirrups, you absolutely don't want to carry them around. That saddle gets heavy real quick when you are on an endlessly long moving walkway.
- It's not as good of an idea to perch the saddle on the handle of a rolling bag as you would think. The double bar configuration means it will start slipping on the aforementioned moving walkways, then you will have to stop and right it. This will inevitably happen just as the one pissed off New Yorker who is late for his connection is trying to perform the airport walkway version of a Talladega bump draft. Carry it if you can. Much less irritating. However, I suspect that if I had given that plan more thought and secured it around the handle, in a burrito fashion, with some kind of strap, it would have worked out better.
- You probably aren't as crazy as I am, so disregard that above if necessary. That's really only going to come into play if you're trying to bring three carry ons. Which, also, no one seems to care about. Go figure.
This concludes my helpful tutorial on how to carry on a saddle. More travel-related rantings to follow.
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