I have friends who asked me what I usually bring when I travel for business and holidays.
Do I bring a lot? Or the bare minimum?
Most of the time I usually hand carry 2 bags accompanied with 1 checked in luggage.
I would check in my Samsonite suitcase bought 3 years ago. After lots and lots of abuse by the airport luggage handlers, it’s still going very strong. And it comes with 10 years warranty.
So no worries.
I’ll have one laptop bag with two 12.1″ laptops inside. One for work and one personal use. No mix between work and personal stuffs.
And then I’ll bring another camera backpack. This is the most awesome bag I ever had. Great quality and good design. It still looks like a new one after 1.5 years of heavy abuse and having been to more than 10 countries.
It’s a Thinktank Glass Taxi.
I’ll have my SLR in it, a G10, 2 lenses and a flash gun. Sometimes I’ll have my tripod inside a Thinktank Bazooka if the destination is worth bringing my 2kg tripod.
But, there are certain trips which I carry only one carry on bag, especially on Air Asia flights. Usually this is where I go for vacation or scuba diving trips overseas.
Since it’s a vacation, there’s not going to be laptop for work.
The backpack I use is a Thinktank Streetwalker Harddrive. It’s a camera and laptop backpack combo.
I’ll put my 12.1″ personal laptop inside together with my camera, underwater Fisheye FIX housing, strobes, lenses, UCLS tray system, a whole loads of batteries, camera maintenance kits and some other stuffs..
All in all, it would weigh anywhere between 8-10kg.
The Thinktank Streetwalker Harddrive is another awesome bag. In fact, I love both my Thinktanks. However, the Streetwalker Harddriver is used less frequently because of it’s bulkyness.
I know Thinktanks are above the average bag prices. But trust me, once you get hold of any Thinktank bag, you’ll never want to change it for another brand. It’s that good.
I have specific bags for specific purposes. A bag for each purpose and what’s going to be in it.
Women buy lots of handbags but they are all the same.
Guys buy lots of bags too, but for SPECIFIC purpose.