Backpack cushion

There was a write-up of Rick Steves’ handy little black (now in other colors) backpack (July ’08, pg. 84). This little item saved my backside on my April 11-May 11, 2008, trip.

Shortly before we left for a month in Australia and New Zealand (with business-class air paid for), I developed a condition that made it impossible to sit without a lot of pain.

It turns out that that backpack is exactly the right size to hold an orthopedic prescription correction “donut” that I needed to sit on. It was my constant companion, yet I didn’t feel uncomfortable taking it into restaurants, gondolas, buses, boats, streetcars — whatever. I kept the “donut” inside the backpack and sat on that.

DEE HORNBACK

Los Altos, CA