I'm starting to get better at the travel thing, and since I'm going to spend this summer on the road, I figured it was time to document my current travel setup, which consists of 1 backpack + 1 guitar. I may rearrange this to become 1 suitcase + 1 guitar, with the backpack comprising most of the interior of the suitcase, but we'll see.
Back compartment:
- Laptop, laptop power cable
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
- Portable laptop stand
- Any papers I'm carrying for work or study
- Any books/software I'm working through, including music books
- Anti-RSI tools
Middle compartment:
- Running shoes
- Dancing shoes
- Clothes for the week, including 1 pair of either nice or non-nice pants (whichever one I'm not wearing), 1 light pair of running/pajama pants, and rolled-up t-shirts (and usually one shirt that's not a t-shirt)
- Some sort of portable exercise thingy, when I get one - Greg recommended exercise bands, I'll have to check into that.
Front top compartment:
- Toothbrush and toothpaste
- Travel comb
- Earbuds and ogg/mp3 player, microUSB connector for charging/file-transfer
- Thumbdrives for messing around with in general
Front bottom compartment:
- GPS, with dashboard mount and charger
- Phone charger
- RSI-prevention combination wrist-rest/wrist-brace gloves
- Headset/webcam (when I get one for my laptop - I don't have one now)
On the Mel:
- Cell phone (front right pocket)
- Wallet (front left pocket)
- Notebook and pen (rear left pocket)
- Boarding pass and photo ID (rear right pocket)
- Keys (on carabiner hanging from belt)
- Jacket (either wearing it or tied around my waist)
- Comfortable shoes that don't look awful
Guitar:
- Guitar
- Capo