Yuletide faves?

Obviously you won t have had time to trip test them, but please share your favorite (received) travel gear gifts! Make your fellow OBOWers green (and red) with envy.

Comments

[Alan B]

I have received a Tom Bihn Medium Cafe Bag in Black/Steel:

http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/200/TB0202

to use as a "personal" item more compact than my REI Stratocruiser Carry-On Bag or my Osprey Daylite day pack, and more adaptable to using as an urban walk-around bag. Probably most of my use, however, will be just local, carrying papers and the like to meetings local and otherwise. I would allow that I DON"T spend much time idling in cafes!

[Alan B]

I should have mentioned that on the other side of the size spectrum, I have a smaller Eagle Creek Guide Pro Bag, same price as the Tom Bihn, top zips, more interior organization, but not large enough to take a full-size sheet of paper or a regular-sized magazine. Similarly, I have a much more expensive Tumi cross shoulder bag, which proves marginally too small to easily take a full-size sheet of paper, and a bit too narrow to easily take other sundries. Anyway, the Tom Bihn Medium Cafe Bag, which can be carried either over a shoulder directly, or cross shoulder, falls into the middle of the five bag spectrum outlined, and arguable is the most versatile.

[Monte]

A bottle of Laphroaig 10 year old cask strength which will take me quite a ways, and ways, and ways.

[Brad]

Ye now need only a quick-dry travel kilt, laddie! Cheers.

[Alan B]

...and did I mention that a fifth of Highland Park 12 year old single malt fits nicely into the Tom Bihn Medium Cafe Bag...for those nights when you're...not exactly going to a cafe?

[Monte]

Aye, that flatish bottle travels well.

With only a quick-dry kilt, the question of how many skivvies to take would be moot, mon.

[Steph]

I got a Red Oxx Air Boss bag for Christmas! That and a Rick Steves silk sleep bag. No more worries about getting stuck in airports w/o my stuff. I'm all set now!

[K-eM]

My brother gave me an "Emergency Rope Bracelet." A great way to carry 10 feet of rope for emergencies. I'm going to learn how to re-weave it so if I use it, I can return it to being a bracelet.
http://www.branchwhipped.com/tag/emergency-rope/