Travels with Rolly and Cthulhu

[mdlbear]

This the first time in over a decade that I've traveled with nothing but carryon baggage -- basically since I've been traveling with Plink. Since my brother has a guitar, though, I was able to leave Plink at home. She gave me her tuner to keep me company, and Colleen insisted that I take the little stuffed Cthulhu.

The rolly usually has a little more trouble than the backpack fitting under a seat, but it's a lot more convenient standing in lines. If I did have Plink with me, it would mean that I could sling her across my back, which is a lot easier than having her in one hand while wrangling a rolling suitcase with the other.

The rolly is stacked with a little black gym bag; together they have about the capacity of a small suitcase. I really like the small shoulder bag that I'm using these days, in part because it's too small to overload the way I do with the old Eagle Creek sidekick bag, and in part because it fits nicely in the rolly.

The thing that makes it work is not putting the laptop in a padded sleeve; it's just in the narrower of the two compartments of the rolly. The main compartment contains my CPAP, the ziplock bag of drugs, a book, Cthulhu, snacks, and my shoulder bag.

The gym bag has the toiletries kit (mostly the neti pot and salt), a spare shirt, three changes of underwear and socks, a book for the trip home, phone charger, and some assorted other stuff. A copy of the TG* songbook, unbound, down at the bottom.