Originally Posted by
jpmcdonough
I tried to pack for my travels (4 days a week, connecting flights) in a shoulder bag and/or backpack, and found that if I took all I needed to take, it was pretty heavy. It was a Rick Steves convertible bag, weighs about the same as Air Boss. I ended up using a roller in order to lighten the load.
I was taking a laptop and now have a MacBook Air so I may reconsider the shoulder bag.
Jpm, if you wanted to, you could post your packing list for a review and critique (if you can stand it
). We've done this here quite often as a communal effort and it has usually helped people reduce their load and be generally quicker and more efficient.
If you haven't done so yet, read through the links in the Masterthread on packing up top. There are sample packing lists. It's now stickied again.
However, I do admit that if one has more than 8-9kg on the shoulder it gets heavy pretty easily. And staying under 8kg with office and tech supplies plus personal items for four days is not easy.
In those cases when it's just not doable I also take the roller (Travelpro Plat5) and I feel no regret whatsoever.
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