Friday Float: Why Do People Spend So Much Money on Expensive Suitcases?

Rimowa, Away, TUMI, and the luxury luggage boom: designer money on the one item guaranteed to get scratched, tossed, and sometimes lost?

Welcome to the third Friday Float, a new series from The Beach Index!

As a refresher: These are shorter, more immediate notes. The places, hotels, and beach travel experiences I keep coming back to in my head. Sometimes it’s a full list, sometimes just one place or thing I can’t stop thinking about. Think of this as the in-between. Not a full deep dive, …