Hasta La Ideas

After unpacking at the hotel, the Dry Red No. 5 laptop backpack I was testing out was emptied and refilled with slightly different goods. (And no, I didn’t carry that plastic grid with me to the hotel; the photos I took there were poor due to the hotel room’s lighting, so I re-shot these photos back at my apartment, post-trip.)

For the plane ride the bag needed to hold a few, mostly large items; for its next intended use, serving as a journalist’s bag to cover an event, it would need to hold a variety of smaller items, some of which I’d need to access quickly.

Here we see I’ve got the laptop, my eyeglasses, a pen and pad, a business card holder, a thumb drive, assorted cables and chargers, a camera, an audio recorder, a backup camera battery, and backup SD cards.

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