honing the kit
Inspired by a recent post on getting better at traveling I'm working on honing my travel kit a bit. On my latest trip to London, I knew I'd have to do a lot of walking around with my luggage so tried to keep everything to a single EMS backpack/travel bag that I've got (a la Rick Steves), but it was just a little bit heavy for me to carry around on my back for very long so I opted for a pull behind and a smaller backpack for my carryon. It was manageable but I could have gotten away with paring it down a bit more. Traveling in winter and the fact that I had some fairly high-end meetings to attend made it more difficult since it meant i needed to double up on jackets and such as it's a bit difficult to pull of rolling up to a lunch at a fancy joint wearing a fleece hiking vest and a sport jacket. So here's my notes for next time
• Electronics
• USB phone charger/cable
• plug part not necessary as can charge via usb off of laptop
• camera (no charger or extra batteries brought as I know my LX3 can go a while on one charge)
• laptop
• laptop power adapter with UK plug (Apple handles internationalization of adapters like a champ).
• clothes for business trip
• Biz clothes
• 3 pairs of wool dress pants (wool pants are key and I could have gotten by with two pairs for four days)
• 3 dress shirts
• wool dress sweater
• sport jacket
• clarks - wore these the whole time and shouln't have brought sneakers since the hotel didn't have a gym
• wool top coat (man this was a bear to lug around, i prob didn't need to bring it).
• travel clothes
• cords
• fleece vest and rain layer (the rain layer was key in london and i ended up wearing it around over my sportcoat wherever I went).
• longsleeve smartwool t-shirt (this was great for the plane where the temp changes a bit)
• tshirt
• 1/4 zip wool sweater
• sneakers
• exercise clothes
• endo pants (never ended up running while I was there so this and the sneakers were a waste)
• tshirts (2)
• toiletries
• razor
• toothbrush
• toothpaste
• shaving cream
• prescriptions
• promethazine (nothing like abusing some prescription drugs to help get me on a sleep schedule).
• tylenol
• sinus rinse
