Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
Wow, thanks for that. Welcome to Flyertalk as well. Do you think you could post an approximate packing list? Im curious as to how you handled it. Im looking ahead a bit and seeing some longer trips than I usually take and am beginning to think about packing. Thanks.
This is from memory, but here goes:
* Two sportcoats (wore one while traveling)
* 2 pair blue jeans (wore one while traveling)
* 2 pair khakis
* 2 golf polos (wore one while traveling)
* 2 dress shirts
* 3 pair travel briefs
* 3 pair travel socks
* 1 reversible belt
* 2 ties
* 1 pair dress-casual slip on shoes (worn while traveling)
* 1 pair tennis shoes
* 1 pair track pants
* 1 exercise shirt (UnderArmour)
* 1 light merino wool sweater (bought midway in Paris)
* Macbook pro (w/ extra battery and charger)
* Small packing cube (cords, plugs, extra biz cards, ipod cable)
* Small packing cube (non-liquid toiletries: razor, toothbrush, clothesline, aspirin, sewing kit)
* Ziploc for liquid toiletries (including travel detergent and shaving oil -- both critical)
* Umbrella
Clothes and shoes in both sides of the Air boss (with travel cubes, socks, and briefs as "core" of bundles), laptop in the middle with charger and umbrella.
I was never in the same city (or with the same people) for more than 3 days, so it didn't matter that I wore variations of the same outfit over and over. I washed the golf shirts, socks, underwear and exercise stuff in the hotel sinks along the way (5 different hotels), and had the dress shirts laundered at a hotel once. I'm lucky that I can dress business casual (polo under sportcoat with khaki or jeans) most days, and that works pretty well for touring London or Paris in the spring.
A navy and an off-white golf polo (since they dry very quickly), a dark and a light sportcoat, and a pair of khakis and jeans can be mixed and matched into quite a few different combos, especially if you stick to colors that all well together. A good place to start is
http://www.onebag.com/checklist.html and add/remove as needed.
I don't know how much it weighed, but it was definitely the heaviest I've loaded the Air Boss. It was never weighed, since I wasn't checking it and it was on my shoulder, so the TAs and GAs along the way (BOS, ORD, LHR, CDG, TXP) never asked (though the TAs are always surprised when I only have one carry on for a TATL).
Oh, and I bought more travel-sized toiletries along the way as I ran out.