Something I add for the winter time. My portable room humidifier. Its small somewhat heavy, and runs off a liter water bottle.

After too many trips of waking up like a 1000 year old mummy, due to the electric heat, I have found this to be a real life-saver.

Great suggestions.

I never leave without my CanonS100 digital camera. Great not only for pics, but as a quick recorder for meeting notes, maps, for anything I want a quick reference a few minutes or a few hours later.

So the download cable, charger, and extra battery go into my cables-bag, which includes among other things:
- the AC + extra battery for my G4powerbook,
- firewire cable for turning the G4 into a firewire drive
- security cable
- usb charger for Nokia8890
- cable for samsung MP3 player (the super tiny one, but that IPod looks great)
- aspirin

this bag goes into a roller with a slim notebook bag, which i can pull out just before settling into my airplane seat

that has the essentials, among which are:
- handspring visor with dental floss module (i kid you not)
- G4 and air-power adapter
- small slip over neck headphones (so you can fall asleep with then on)
- wet tissues (neutrogena clean pore type? i forget), small bottle of water, pens
- travel wallet with FF cards, about a dozen copies of my passport photo, the yellow immunization record card
- nyquil

of course, on the last flight i only tapped into the nyquil and then the rest didn't matter...

stuffing the laptop bag back into the roller 20 minutes before landing is great: one bag to pull and no shoulder problems for a while now.

happy (and light!) travels

All of these ideas are great, I loved two in particular. The one about an expired license in my carry one which I will actually use my state ID card which has the same number as my license and the scanning docs Idea and sending to my hotmail and yahoo accounts. However I want to ad that I have a file currently that lists all my credit card numbers, important other numbers and serial numbers of all "equipment" that I have and will email that as well just in case anything I'm traveling with ever gets stolen.

What a great topic!!!

I would add serial numbers but NOT credit card numbers unless they were encrypted. I would NOT want to leave those on a publically-accesible server like Hotmail or Yahoo.

Many of the above plus:

- Melatonin
- Water bottle
- Granola bars -- for flight and hungry moments in hotel rooms (to avoid outrageous minibar charges)
- I bring one of those plastic grocery coupon sorters to sort and store my receipts if the trip is more than a few days -- easy to keep them in chronological order when doing the expense report.
- Printout of my itinerary with hotels and phone numbers in each piece of luggage. (Nametags do get trashed.)
- Small color printer + extra ink cartridge.

HA! I love this thread...

I'm curious, however, to ask what everyone uses to put all these items in?

I was thinking about designing some sort of backpack for laptop and other essentials because I really don't like trolleys that much (I'm sure that will change as I get older, or when my shoulder starts hurting all the more).

Currently I use an old gym bag that has simply seen too many continents...Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Flake

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Travel light, travel cheap, travel often

My noise reduction head phones was one of the best investments and my laptop power adapter http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Here's a good thing to add...

"Shout wipes" - they are in little packets like the "hand wipes" except you use them to immediately treat stains or coffee spills, etc. Keep a couple of them handy!

There's been some discussion of the perfect traveling bag over in the Ladies' Room:
http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...ML/000014.html

Are those Bose Noise reduction headphones really worth the money? My travels are beginning to accelerate and I am assembling my travel kit.

Great Thread!

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on shopping trips, i now take two of those tube-cardboard-enclosed-wire-handles that attach to string that one wraps around parcels. makes lugging those rugs, clocks, etc. back a whole lot easier.

also, a plastic shoehorn.

i have a duplicate set of all of my toiletries in travel sizes that i never unpack from my toiletry bag. my fav is the compact, collapsible hairbrush with build-in mirror that came from a CO Businesss-1st amenity pack, that i just saw for sale for the first time at the 90th Street pharmacy on madison avenue in manhattan.

Agreed - great topic.

My bag: an amazing one from McKlein (found it in Toronto and it breezes through ANZ, AC, QF, and UA).

Inside:

1. If on business, Thinkpad 770ED
2. Business cards
3. Extra luggage locks
4. Panadol (headache tablets)
5. Earplugs
6. Eyeshade
7. NoJetLag - I live in NZ and fly to NA regularly - these are AMAZING
8. Handiwipes
9. small toiletries pack - bandaids, hair gel (for "seathead" after 13 hours in Economy), brush/paste)
13. Eagle Creek ticket hold with: tickets, luggage tags, itinerary, FF cards, credit cards
14. A few magazines
15. usually a students' thesis or dissertation that I'm reading

Also travel with my Palm m105, which has:

a. all my intineraries
b. complete list of credit cards, passport info, bank accounts, etc.
c. the ENTIRE star alliance schedule, accurate to within the last week - great for juggling flights if you miss one
d. a chess game
e. seat layouts (as .jpg images) for every aircraft I would possibly fly
f. airport layouts (as .jpg images) for various airports.


Cheers

DavidNZ

I was a bit concerned with this. Though not foolproof, I did zip them with a password. Anything to slow someone down if they got to them.

Superlative idea! I use a Palm Vx and I love it, but haven't even begun to use it to its full potential. Where/How did you get the above mentioned jpgs?

Please advise. Thank you.
-levi aka eastwest

Seat charts and airport maps available online at respective sites.

I'm thinking, though, that rather than have seat charts on my Palm, I might go back to having paper copies in my organiser. Much easier. That way, while a gate agent is running though seat options, you have your Palm up and running, with paper copies of seat charts next to you.