Bon Voyage: Rig a backpack ...
Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 16:33 When I started flying regularly as a teenager, I'd make a game of taking as little luggage as possible, a skill that serves me well in this era of airlines charging for checked bags.
The only electronics I packed at that time were my camera and sometimes a Walkman. That's a portable tape player, for those of you who teethed on an iPod.
Last February I went on a four-day press trip on a cruise ship. I took a little flat bag for my clothes and purse, and a standard backpack for my little plastic bag of toiletries and anything else I needed. It was the anything else that blew me away; laptop, cellphone, digital camera, wireless headset, Kindle for on the plane, iPod for working out; and all the wires, docks and remote batteries necessary to charge them.
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