A short (two nights) trip to suburban DC

I am a bit behind, well a lot behind, but due to the hurricane I have canceled my remaining trips this year so I should be able to catch up.  This was a two evening stay in Maryland, for a scientific meeting.  It was in September.  I took the shuttle down to DC on a Wednesday evening and the train back Friday afternoon.  This is more of my attempt at minimalism, everything in an LL Bean backpack.  It worked well.   A bit full but I can get the packing cube in the bottom compartment of the backpack which really makes the rest less cluttered.

➙ LL Bean Turbo Transit Pack

✓ Reading Glasses
✓ Glasses
✓ iPhone Charger
✓ Ipad
✓ Trip Folder
✓ Etymotics Earphones
✓ iPhone
✓ Kleenex
✓ Listerine Packet
✓ Livescribe Pen
✓ HTC Phone
✓ Pocket Briefcase
✓ Flashlight
✓ Small Rhodia Notebook
✓ Pencil
✓ Pen
✓ Large Moleskine Notebook
✓ Med Pouch With Contacts
✓ Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
✓ Personal Filofax


➙ iPad Travel Express
✓ Stylus
✓ iPad Video Out Cable
✓ MacBook Video Out Adaptor
✓ iPad Keyboard Cover

➙ Packing Cube Black
✓ Shirts 2
✓ Socks 2
✓ Underwear 3
✓ Slacks

➙ Bag Of Cables
✓ Micro Usb 2
✓ Mini Usb 1
✓ IPad Charger
✓ USB Charger Base
✓ MacBook Ethernet Adaptor

➙ Small Gear Bag 1
✓ Senns
✓ Pens

Trip to Cambridge, UK

This was originally going to be a much longer trip, up to as many as six days.  However, at both ends of the trip things came up so it turned into leaving Thursday early evening for Heathrow, arriving Friday morning and heading to Cambridge.  Then back to Heathrow Saturday afternoon and home to JFK Saturday night.  Since I had packed for the longer trip I didn't completely repack to another bag and which resulted in using a larger rolling bag than I would have typically used for a two day trip.  Gorgeous weather in Cambridge while I was there.  Also, since I was doing a presentation and thought I might modify it while there and also had some documents I wanted to edit while tracking changes I took a notebook computer in addition to an iPad.


➙ LL Bean Turbo Transit Backpack
iPad Travel Express ➙
Stylus
iPad Video Out Cable
MacBook Video Out Adaptor
iPad Keyboard Cover
Mac book Air
Ipad


✓ Reading Glasses
✓ Glasses
✓ iPhone Charger
✓ iPad Plane Charger Adaptor
✓ Trip Folder
✓ Etymotics Earphones
✓ iPhone
✓ Kleenex
✓ Listerine Packet
✓ Bag Of Liquids
✓ Livescribe Pen
✓ HTC Phone
✓ Pocket Briefcase with Livescribe note paper
✓ Passport
✓ Passport Holder
✓ Plug Adaptor
✓ Pounds
✓ Flashlight
✓ A5 Filofax
✓ Small Rhodia Notebook
✓ Pencil
✓ Pen
✓ iPod
✓ Blackberry
✓ Mac Book Charger
✓ Mac Book Air Airplane Adaptor


Briggs and Riley 19 inch BRX
✓ Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
✓ Plug Adaptor
✓ Rain Jacket
✓ Walking Shoes
✓ Contacts
✓ Large Moleskine Notebook
✓ Neti Stuff
✓ Med Pouch with contacts
✓ Hand wipes

➙ Bag Of Cables
✓ Micro Usb 2
✓ Mini Usb 1
✓ IPad Charger
✓ USB Charger Base
✓ MacBook Ethernet Adaptor

➙ Small Gear Bag 1
✓ Senns
✓ Pens

➙ Packing Cube Black
✓ Shirts 1
✓ Socks 2
✓ Underwear 2

➙ Double Packing Cube
✓ Shirts 3
✓ Socks 3
✓ Underwear 4
✓ Pants

Two day trip to Alexandria Virginia July 30, 2012

This is my packing list for a two day trip to attend a meeting in Alexandria Virginia.  Currently on the trip.  I left in the afternoon of Monday July 30 and am returning on the evening of Wednesday August 1.  Decided not to take a raincoat based on the weather reports.  I took the Acela both ways from NY to Union Station in DC.  Decided that due to steps in Penn Station in NY and being able to pack fairly light that I would try not going with a rolling bag.  At least on the way down it worked out great.

I weighed both bags prior to leaving and one was 13.9 pounds and the other 14 pounds.  A tad bit on the heavy side but not too bad, and having it in two bags made it easier to deal with.  Wore the backpack and carried the satchel on one shoulder with a Tom Bihn Ultimate strap.

Packing List for Two day trip to Alexandria Virginia

Bags:

LL Bean Turbo Transit Pack 

Briggs & Riley Satchel 

Content:

LL Bean Turbo Transit Pack:

iPad Travel Express

Stylus

iPad Video Out Cable

MacBook Video Out Adaptor

iPad Keyboard Cover

Ipad

11 Inch MacBook Air

Reading Glasses

Glasses

iPhone Charger

Trip Folder

Etymotics Earphones

iPhone

Kleenex

Listerine Packet

Livescribe Pen

HTC Phone

Pocket Briefcase

Flashlight

Small Rhodia Notebook

Pencil

Pen

Large Moleskine Notebook

MacBook Charger

Briggs & Riley Satchel:

Med Pouch With Contacts

Shaving Kit Incl. Razor

Gym Pants

Gym Shirt

Gym Shoes

Sinus Meds

Packing Cube Black

Shirts 2

Socks 2

Underwear 3

Slacks

Bag Of Cables

Micro Usb 2

Mini Usb 1

IPad Charger

USB Charger Base

MacBook Ethernet Adaptor

Small Gear Bag 1

Senns (spare headphones)

Pens

Packing list for a 3 day trip to Cambridge in March

I have a few trips to catch up on.  I will add them in mixed with the more current ones.  I am including the dates since they are relevant regarding the weather at the time of year the trip was made. 

This is a packing list for a three day trip to the UK.  The trip was in early spring.  Weather was predicted to be fairly warm with a chance of rain.  Rain in the UK?  Seriously.  Well, in any case, I brought a rain jacket (Marmot Precip).  Also, I had some work to do on the trip that made a notebook computer a useful thing to have so I brought my 11 inch MB Air.  Having the computer and knowing the long walks at LHR I decided on a rolling bag, a 19 inch Briggs & Riley BRX.  Here is the packing list. 

Three day trip to Cambridge, UK 2012

Bags: SF Bags Large Cargo Bag and a 19 inch Briggs & Rilery BRX (rolling bag)

Contents:

SFBags Large Cargo Bag

Small Gear Bag 1- containing:
  USB Drive With Work Pdfs
  Senns
  Pens

SF Bags iPad Travel Express - containing:
  Stylus
  iPad Video Out Cable
  MacBook Video Out Adaptor

Reading Glasses
Glasses
iPhone Charger
Ipad
Trip Folder
MacBook Air Charger
Etymotics Earphones
iPhone
Kleenex
Listerine Packet
Bag Of Liquids
MB Air
iPod
Livescribe Pen
Med Pouch With Contact lenses
HTC Phone
Pounds
Pocket Briefcase
Passport
Passport Holder
Plug Adaptor

Briggs & Riley 19 inch -BRX

Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
Rain Jacket
Plug Adaptor

Large Packing Cube - containing:
  Shirts 3
  Socks 3
  Underwear 4
  Pants

Bag Of Cables - containing:
  Micro Usb 2
  Mini Usb 1
  IPad Charger
  USB Charger Base
  HTC Phone extra Capacity Battery
  HTC Phone Extended Battery Back Cover
  MacBook Ethernet Adaptor
  Plug Adaptor

A picture from last week's trip to San Diego

It was rainy and chilly in San Diego during my visit.  In fact it looks in this picture that a bit of the downtown streets and sidewalks are merging into the harbor.

Packing list for two day trip : JFK - San Diego

I decided to go easy on the carrying so I am going with two bags, one with wheels, rather than one bagging on this trip. Could have done one bag but the fact that I am on a mainline plane, scheduled non-stop and I think maybe a bit sore from carrying too much on my shoulder for last weeks trip invokes the wheels.

SF bags Large Briefcase ➙
Rolling Cabin Bag ➙

➙ SF bags Large Briefcase
Reading Glasses
Glasses
iPhone Charger
iPad Charger
Ipad
Trip Folder
Etymotics Earphones
iPhone
iPod
Kleenex
Listerine Packet
Bag Of Liquids
MiFi
Livescribe Pen
Pen
Red Pen
Pencil
Yellow Marker
HTC Phone
Pocket Briefcase
MacBook Charger
MB Air
MB Air Airplane Adaptor
Car Adaptor For iPad
Small Gear Bag 1 ➙
iPad Travel Express ➙

➙ Small Gear Bag 1
Sennheiser back up headphones
2 USB Drives

➙ iPad Travel Express
Stylus
iPad Video Out Cable
MacBook Video Out Adaptor

➙ Briggs and Riley Rolling Cabin Bag
Medium Packing Cube ➙
Blue Medium Packing Cube ➙
Gym Shoes
Med Pouch With Contacts
Moleskine Small Storyboard Book
Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
Bag Of Cables ➙
Rhodia Web Notebook
Moleskine Diary
Large Moleskine notebook

➙ Medium Packing Cube
Shirts 2
Socks 2
Underwear 2
Pants

➙ Blue Medium Packing Cube
Gym Pants
Polo Shirt

➙ Bag Of Cables
Micro Usb 2
USB Charger Base
HTC Phone extra Capacity Battery
HTC Phone Extended Battery Back Cover
MacBook Ethernet Adaptor

Picking list for a 5 day trip to Tokyo

 Here is my most recent packing list. This was for a five day trip to Tokyo.  The SF Bags large cargo is my briefcase, shown here.  The BRX refers to my Briggs & Riley BRX 19 inch rolling suitcase.  I sort of wished I hadn't taken the sport coat and the extra pair of tan pants to wear with it. It was a pretty tight fit in the bags. But it did work.

➙ Tokyo Jan 2012
SFBags Large Cargo Bag ➙
Second Bag -BRX ➙

➙ SFBags Large Cargo Bag
Small Gear Bag 1 ➙
iPad Travel Express ➙
Bag Of Cables ➙
✓ Reading Glasses
✓ Glasses
✓ iPhone Charger
✓ MacBook  Charger
✓ Ipad
✓ Trip Folder
✓ Etymotics Earphones
✓ iPhone
✓ Kleenex
✓ Listerine Packet
✓ Bag Of Liquids
✓ MB Air
✓ iPod
✓ MiFi
✓ Livescribe Pen
✓ Med Pouch With Contacts
✓ Livescribe Notepad
✓ HTC Phone
✓ Yen
✓ Pocket Briefcase
✓ Passport
✓ Passport Holder
✓ Plug Adaptor

➙ Small Gear Bag 1
✓ USB Drive With Work Pdfs
✓ Senns
✓ Pens
Work USB ➙
✓ 3G Juice

➙ Work USB     Extra copies of presentation in multiple formats 

➙ iPad Travel Express
✓ Stylus
✓ iPad Video Out Cable
✓ MacBook Video Out Adaptor

➙ Bag Of Cables
✓ Micro Usb 2
✓ Mini Usb 1
✓ IPad Charger
✓ USB Charger Base
✓ MiFi Charger
✓ HTC Phone extra Capacity Battery
✓ HTC Phone Extended Battery Back Cover
✓ MacBook Ethernet Adaptor

➙ Second Bag -BRX
Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
✓ Rain Jacket
✓ Sport Coat
✓ Plug Adaptor
Large Packing Cube ➙
Medium Packing Cube Blue ➙
Bag Of Cables ➙

➙ Large Packing Cube
✓ Shirts 4
✓ Socks 4
✓ Underwear 5
✓ Tan Pants

➙ Medium Packing Cube Blue
✓ Shirt
✓ Socks
✓ Underwear
✓ Pants

➙ Bag Of Cables
Micro Usb 2
Mini Usb 1
IPad Charger
USB Charger Base
MiFi Charger
HTC Phone extra Capacity Battery
HTC Phone Extended Battery Back Cover
MacBook Ethernet Adaptor
Plug Adaptor

A new bag! Complete with a 3 day packing list

  Below is the packing list from my most recent trip. I just received a new bag as a Christmas gift, the Waterfield Designs large cargo bag (from SFBags.com), and it is fantastic. This is my first trip with it. The list below was my departure set up. The large cargo bag is big enough that I could have added one of the packing cubes to it in order to have one bag with a spare set of clothes (in case I had to check a bag). This is the way I am planning for future trips as well.  The trip was to San Diego. Left on Friday afternoon and returned home Monday. 

SFBags Large Cargo Bag ➙
Red Oxx Skytrain ➙

➙ SFBags Large Cargo Bag
Small Gear Bag 1 ➙
iPad Travel Express ➙
✓ Reading Glasses
✓ Glasses
✓ iPhone Charger
✓ MacBook  Charger
✓ Ipad
✓ Trip Folder
✓ Etymotics Earphones
✓ iPhone
✓ Kleenex
✓ Listerine Packet
✓ Bag Of Liquids
✓ MB Air
✓ iPod
✓ MiFi
✓ Livescribe Pen
✓ Med Pouch With Contacts
✓ Livescribe Notepad
✓ HTC Phone

➙ Small Gear Bag 1
✓ USB Drive With Work Pdfs
✓ Senns
✓ Pens
✓ 3G Juice

➙ iPad Travel Express
✓ Stylus
✓ iPad Video Out Cable
✓ MacBook Video Out Adaptor

➙ Red Oxx Skytrain
Medium Packing Cube ➙
Medium Packing Cube Blue ➙
Bag Of Cables ➙
Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
✓ Rain Jacket

➙ Medium Packing Cube
✓ Shirts 2
✓ Socks 2
✓ Underwear 3

➙ Medium Packing Cube Blue
✓ Shirt
✓ Socks
✓ Underwear
✓ Pants

➙ Bag Of Cables
✓ Micro Usb 2
✓ Mini Usb 1
✓ IPad Charger
✓ USB Charger Base
✓ MiFi Charger
✓ HTC Phone extra Capacity Battery
✓ HTC Phone Extended Battery Back Cover
✓ MacBook Ethernet Adaptor
✓ Power Strip

Packing list for a recent 1 day trip

This is a the packing list for a recent one day trip I took. This trip was one day domestic and I didn't take a computer. There are a few things in my travel kit that don't get removed even though not really needed on this trip. The list was generated using SpeedList on my iPhone which I use for all of my packing lists - and I always make a packing list when traveling.

➙ Tristar
Large Packing Cube ➙
Small Gear Bag 1 ➙
Med Pouch With Contacts
A5 Notebook for Livescribe
Ipad
Trip Folder
Etymotics Earphones
iPhone
VZW blackberry
Kleenex
Listerine Packet
Cough Drops
USB Charger Base
Shaving Kit Incl. Razor
Bag Of Liquids
Livescribe Pen
Reading Glasses
Glasses
IPad Charger
iPhone Charger
Box wave stylus for iPad
3G Juice (iPhone external battery)
MiFi Charger
MiFi

Bag Of Cables ➙

➙ Bag Of Cables
Micro Usb 2
Mini Usb 1
IPhone cable (spare)

➙ Small Gear Bag
USB Drive With Work Pdfs
Senn headsets - spares
Spare BB Battery
Pens
SIM cards (UK and international prepaid)

➙ Large Packing Cube
Shirts 1
Underwear 2
Socks 1
Pants

Yet another way to post while traveling

Several devices such as Blackberries have dedicated software for blogging. You can also just email to an address you set up for your blog as well. I'm trying this post using my iPhone's browser and the standard blogger web interface. It seems like the Safari on the iPhone gives you good access to the blogger software.

Blackberries and Blogging

After messing around trying to find a way to do mobile blogging it seems that the simplest way is the most obvious. The combination of the email blogging capabillity of Blogger with the ease and incredible portability of the Blackberry.

The one thing that is missing is the ability to edit. Some of the other solutions such a HBlogger do provide editing ability. There is a bit more overhead involved with that than simply firing an email off to your secret Blogger address.

Since I have both, I mean look at the name of my blog, I will end up using both. I suspect for quick posts it will be hard to beat the Blackberry. While you can save posts with HBlogger of course, it still requires the actual process of hooking up. This is based on my setup which is a Palm T5. With a Treo as hardware HBlogger might be more similar to emailing from the Blackberry in terms of ease of use.

GadgetFreak

Just checking Palm blogging .....

[Posted with hblogger 2.0 http://www.normsoft.com/hblogger/]

Some more info about transferring files between devices and posting from a mobile phone

Okay, had an interesting series of experiments while in the US Air Club at SFO. I had typed the entry on a Psion 5MX. I then used a program called nconvert to change the Psion word file to three different formats; html, text and rtf. I then used a program called plBeam to transfer all three to my Nokia 6600 cell phone. They appeared as messages on the Nokia. I then tried forwarding the message as a multimedia file or an email. So I forwarded the text message to my Blogger email. Only the multimedia message worked. The email to blogger from the phone came out as gibberish. The rtf file doesnt look like it will work with Blogger either. This entry was typed on the Psion and converted to text, sent to the phone and forwarded as a multimedia message to Blogger. If seems to work fine that way.

I also sent an rtf by email and mms to a MS Exchange address. I will check on how the attachment workedwhen I can get a broadband connection. So far impressed with the combination of devices. It will probably work even better with a real POP address.

Let's get started. Hello everyone

This is my first posting. What will be interesting is how I end up doing the posting. As my handle implies I like gadgets. I also travel a lot. A combination of work, pleasure and frequent flyer miles for the travel. It is one of my hobbies, along with gadgets and photography. Not that they are mutually exclusive of course. Quite the contrary in many cases.

Of course traveling a lot is a relative term. I travelled about 225,000 miles on planes last year. Some people do that much in 6 months. More probably don't do it in 10 years though. The purpose of this blog is to talk about technology from a user standpoint. I'm particularly interested in how technology can be used for travel of course. As such I will probably drift a bit into travel and travel related items that aren't strictly technology More on that as further posts are made. And now to the point of this post.



Im currently on a US Air flight. I left LaGuardia this morning, stopped in Pittsburgh and am now almost to San Francisco. I have about 90 minutes scheduled in San Francsico then off to Charlotte and back to New York later tonight.

So thats all I wll put in this post, a bit of an introduction. The posting of this little exposition is the subject of the experiment. Im trying to get a better idea of what tools I really need to travel with to do a variety of things. Like write and mail a busines letter and make a blog post.Im typing this on a Psion 5MX. My next post will have the results of how I got this post on the web, information about some of the other tests I did and some thoughts on the results.