[balou]

I'm packing for my trip to hungary...
I've got a sports bag full of clothes, food for the first day, toilet articles etc. And a rucksack, devoted solely to various electronic gear

Included:
Nikon D70s with two lenses
iPod
Cmoy
Sony MDR-CD555
iBuds
portable loudspeaker
a vintage '89 gameboy with tetris.

ok, most of the space is occupied by that camera in its carry-on bag

That pretty much fills the whole rucksack. Are there other people who carry around that much stuff for holidays?
Am I normal?

by the way, hungary still has got some sort of proprietary non-EU compatible money. I will be traveling without any local money. And the ride by train takes about 18 hours. Yeah, this is gonna be fun (ok with beer, it might actually be fun)

 

[laxx]

I don't find it unreasonable. =]

 

[MetalManCPA]

When I travel, my carry-on ALWAYS gets taken aside once it passes through the airport xray and looked at by a TSA employee because I have so much stuff in it:

iPod (with AC charger)
Griffin iTrip for the rental car
Headphone amp - now MiniBox-E (with AC adapter)
Future Sonics Atrio M5 IEM's (in their own case with extra foamies)
Canon SD700IS camera (with battery charger)
Sony PSP - (seperate case inside the bag with PSP, adapters, Future Sonics EM3 IEMs, MiniBox-D amp, and games)
Sony Mini-DV camcorder (in seperate small bag with Ac adapter and extra tapes)
Dell Axim X51v (with seperate small case with AC adapter, bluetooth keyboard)
Electric Razor - (in its own case with AC adapter)

So when this bag with so many items and power cords, (2) amps, (2) IEMs, etc, it must look like a homemade bomb when it goes through the xray.

 

[MusicallySilent]

I have heard of serveral CMoys being taken away by security because they look so strange...

 

[feh1325]

i'm afraid they might look at my bithead funny. its strapped on the back of my laptop with a crap load of green masking tape

 

[subfocus]

Definitely not an unreasonable amount of gear. Sounds like you've got the bare necessities for sitting on a train for 18 hours.

 

[Mrvile]

While it's not unreasonable, I personally wouldn't take all that stuff on with me. If I need to travel for a really long time (like a 13 hour flight to China) I'll still bring just a few things to do. Usually I'll bring any camera equipment that I don't have a case for with my carry on, my MP3 player and earphones, a book, and some paper/pencils to doodle. The majority of the trip will be taken up sleeping, then reading or mindlessly listening to music, and maybe watching some in-flight movies. I never really get that bored on long trips.

For short trips, I sometimes won't even bring a carry-on, and for car rides (5hr+) I just need music and a pillow.

 

[xnothingpoetic]

leave the cmoy. a tin full of wires may look strange to an ignorant airport security person. I mean if they wouldn't let you bring harmless water on, what makes you think they will let you bring that on? (even though a tin full of wires, an op amp, some caps and a 9v battery really wouldn't make much of a bomb lol. . . although I guess you could rig it to shock someone.)

 

[Spareribs]

Traveling with gear is fun. I try to keep it minimum when flying (IEM, small portable something) . If its on a car trip to a hotel, a small desk top rig is easy to lug along, even a small tube amp is fine.