So I ended up going with a 22 inch Walkabout Travelpro! I hate to admit it, but their advertising of "Most often choice of flight crews" really got me. What also got me was that I was able to put it on my Macy's charge account and worry about paying it off after my trip, haha. Tumi and Swissgear and High Sierra (I don't think they had the Lite at Macy's) looked amazing, but the Travelpro was more in my price range. Spongebue, I did see you noted that the department store brands are a little different, but hopefully it holds up for my first year of nonrev travel adventures! Btw did your wife get the job?
It's so funny that you all said no to backpacks, cause at first that's what I was envisioning, but after doing some research I found a lot of blogs of frequent travelers that started with a backpack, or a wheeled backpack, and said they'd never do it again! Great point about "how many flight attendants and pilots do you see with ginormous backpacks?" Haha!
Here's what I went with:
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