oh… don’t forget to bring money and ID cards in your pocket ..

Also, before I go, I take every card in my wallet (credit, membership, library,…) and Xerox them. One or two sheets holds all of them. Then carry one copy, and leave one copy home. That’s in case I lose the wallet.

Igo makes a universal charger – extra tips are lighter than extra wall warts.

A small flashlight.

Carry On – My very favorite orange Tamrac bag
- my Sony Laptop and power cord – too many times I’ve ended up with delayed flights, and end up turning on the computer and playing with photoshop
- My SLR camera – don’t leave home without it on any trips
- usually have one or two extra lenses in as well – I have been trying to pare down but man it’s hard
- card reader for the cameras – yes that it is plural cameras
- ipod and ipod charging cord – usually just music but it has a fair number of NAPP podcasts on there too
- book of some sort – really depends on my mood as the type of book
- passport
- wallet
- lotion, lip balm and hand sanitizer in the clear ziplock bag – gets awfully dry on the plane and I’m a bit of a germ phob
- my point and shoot camera – it depends sometimes it’s the Olympus and sometimes it’s the Canon depends on where I’m going. It’s handy having a point and shoot along, there have been times I’ve whipped it out to get a cute shot – one was of two airport dudes sitting by the nose of the plane having coffee out on the tarmac. I was lucky to get that as security was coming along and told me I couldn’t stop there.
And yes it gets to be a very heavy bag no matter on how I try to downscale it. Now that I have become accustomed to the SLR I hate leaving it at home because it can do the type of shots that the point and shoot can’t do. And I seem to have a hard time leaving the laptop at home too. Mostly because I like being able to download the images and really seeing what I captured.
Checked luggage:
- clothes
- usually another book – I hate running out of reading material
- any extra software I may need for the computer
- portable external hard drive
- tripod on occasion – depends on location and space allowance

I think that’s it…. really all what I consider my ‘children’ goes into my carry on the stuff I don’t care as much about goes into the checked luggage.