Oh, I am sad...the Imago was my first totally impulsive Tom Bihn purchase. A lovely steel, cork, wasabi perfect messenger bag. I carried it everywhere and abused it shamefully. Finally, about three...

Back somewhere around 2006, I was in the market for a replacement for my ancient (and beginning to fall apart) Rick Steves backpack. One day I was sitting at Seatac Airport waiting for my flight...

I've reviewed the Travel Tray before, for its intended purpose. But life sometimes throws us the odd unexpected challenge, and mine recently has been several months of recovery from a serious leg...

Dropbox works well and is idiot-proof, which is important for a non-techie like me. The only drawback I have found is that it is blocked in China, so I have to be sure that I have any necessary items...

Ah, I hadn't thought about the issue of Euro lowcost airlines. I'm thinking about taking a flight between Toulouse and Barcelona on Vueling to save me an all day, multi-leg train trip. I'd better...

Thanks for all of the input! I realized that a Synapse would be ideal for the toting part, but not so much for the flying part of the trip. I'm reconsidering whether to bring the laptop at all. I...

I'm unable to get around these days without a walker, which requires me to have both hands on the walker while I'm out and about. I've been grounded from travel for a few months, but my doctor has...

I gave my daughter an Imago as a diaper bag. The horizontal orientation works well, you can stash a full-sized bottle in the bottom, the two interior pouches are perfect for diaper wipes, hand...

I've reviewed the Travel Tray as a travel tray before, and I wouldn't dream of traveling now without it. I had it with me in Lisbon, doing its usual yeoman thing of corraling my bitty travel goodies,...

Here's the trick with keeping immersion heaters working: put it in your cup with water, then plug it in, then when the water comes to a boil, unplug, and only then pull it out. What generally causes...

I bought the travel tray on a whim when making a holiday order from Tom Bihn. In the interests of full disclosure, I'm pretty hard-core about traveling light, so any extra weight--even a few...

My first aid kit for traveling includes several bandaids, a couple of pieces of pre-cut moleskin for blisters, small pill packets with naproxen sodium or ibuprofen tablets, one with a few sudafed...

My Imago sees heavy, heavy work. It's my standard go-to-work bag, usually my personal item on planes, and a day bag when traveling in urban or not-so-urban areas. So it's been looking a bit grimy...

I have tried bundle packing, which is best in my opinion when you aren't using packing cubes. But if you are, you have to undo your whole bundle just to extract what you're looking for, then...

I bought a pair--they come in regular and wide widths, and in red, black, and gold as the accents. I don't think they will be super-comfortable for a lot of walking, but I plan to pack them for my...

I value corporate responsibility in the companies that make the things I buy and use, so "made in America" can be a part of that concept. But that assumes that "made in America" also means fair wages...

My first trip is to Spring Training in a couple of weeks in Phoenix, then to San Diego, to Hangzhou China, to Honolulu, to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, to Sao Paolo Brazil, to Nanjing China, and to Berlin...

Oh no! Not a new Ristretto! I won't be able to resist...

I clean the cork on my Imago every few months. I still use a nice, soft washcloth and warm water, and it cleans up fine. Once I needed a bit more oomph, so I added a few drops of shampoo to the warm...

I really, really love my Kindle for reading on long plane flights. It's loaded with pleasure reading, travel info, work related reading, foreign language phrasebooks, and yes, a set of Kindle games....

Welcome to the forum, ultramaroo. Hang aroung here long enough and you'll find plenty of reasons to justify more than one Tom Bihn bag!

As for a comparison among the Aeronaut, Tristar, and...

I have the medium cafe bag in steel cordura and the Tristar in steel ballistic nylon. I love both colors, but not together. The cordura is a 'warmer' slightly greenish, slightly warm-taupish gray,...

For those who like to substitute individually wrapped wipes for liquids while traveling, LA Fresh is having a 20%off everything sale. They have things like makeup wipes, natural non-Deet insect...

We got ours today--about $188 and change. More for Tom Bihn and less for the banks!

I agree that, whenever possible, I leave plenty of extra time to deal with the possibility of TSA problems. I'm not shy about escalating to the supervisor level when I get a TSO who doesn't...