Comments on: How to Be a Road Warrior: Streamlining the Laptop Security Check http://trekhound.com/2008/03/26/how-to-be-a-road-warrior-streamlining-the-laptop-security-check/ A resource for independent travelers. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:19:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: webmaster http://trekhound.com/2008/03/26/how-to-be-a-road-warrior-streamlining-the-laptop-security-check/comment-page-1/#comment-123 webmaster Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:22:00 +0000 http://trekhound.com/2008/03/26/how-to-be-a-road-warrior-streamlining-the-laptop-security-check/#comment-123 Hi Lara. Thanks for stopping by and chiming in on the discussion. I definitely agree that when you have two people, things can be remarkably easier as far as airport issues are concerned. I'm definitely going to check out some of the items you mentioned. We were leaning towards exploring the skin folders, so it's reassuring to know that it's working for you. Hey, stop by again some time! Hi Lara.

Thanks for stopping by and chiming in on the discussion. I definitely agree that when you have two people, things can be remarkably easier as far as airport issues are concerned.

I’m definitely going to check out some of the items you mentioned. We were leaning towards exploring the skin folders, so it’s reassuring to know that it’s working for you.

Hey, stop by again some time!

]]> By: laradunston http://trekhound.com/2008/03/26/how-to-be-a-road-warrior-streamlining-the-laptop-security-check/comment-page-1/#comment-120 laradunston Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:18:27 +0000 http://trekhound.com/2008/03/26/how-to-be-a-road-warrior-streamlining-the-laptop-security-check/#comment-120 Like your blog! As for the laptop solution... I'm a professional travel writer so I probably catch 50 or more flights a year. And on some research trips I'm jumping on and off planes every few years - such as a 'budget Scandinavia & Baltic' trip which involved 12 flights and one ferry (and a bus) over 3 weeks. Add to that, my husband and I have been travelling continuously for over 2 years now, so it's out of the question for us to use a standard office-type laptop case. He's also a pro-photographer so he has a lot of gear. We have a soft Samsonite on wheels, each full of technology, several seasons of clothes, books etc. Plus I'm always carrying around one or two bags of research materials, because we might finish research in one country but have to keep the paperwork for the Author Query period which probably won't happen till we get to another. So the laptop has to go in my big shoulder bag - which makes it handy for use when I'm walking around cities - it's a PowerBook G4 so it's nice and light anyway. To protect it I pop it in a Tucano Second Skin Folder especially made for the 12 inch PB. I then quickly unzip that and pop the laptop on top of it in the plastic tub so it can ride through the x-ray machine. We have the whole x-ray machine routine worked out. I always go through first, cause my husband will be inevitably stopped for something (coins in the pockets, a forgotten phone...), and we head the laptops through first so we can quickly grab them from the machine before everything else comes through and crunches all the luggage up. Don't you just hate that? Why can't they slow those things down? Like your blog! As for the laptop solution… I’m a professional travel writer so I probably catch 50 or more flights a year. And on some research trips I’m jumping on and off planes every few years – such as a ‘budget Scandinavia & Baltic’ trip which involved 12 flights and one ferry (and a bus) over 3 weeks. Add to that, my husband and I have been travelling continuously for over 2 years now, so it’s out of the question for us to use a standard office-type laptop case. He’s also a pro-photographer so he has a lot of gear. We have a soft Samsonite on wheels, each full of technology, several seasons of clothes, books etc. Plus I’m always carrying around one or two bags of research materials, because we might finish research in one country but have to keep the paperwork for the Author Query period which probably won’t happen till we get to another.

So the laptop has to go in my big shoulder bag – which makes it handy for use when I’m walking around cities – it’s a PowerBook G4 so it’s nice and light anyway. To protect it I pop it in a Tucano Second Skin Folder especially made for the 12 inch PB. I then quickly unzip that and pop the laptop on top of it in the plastic tub so it can ride through the x-ray machine.

We have the whole x-ray machine routine worked out. I always go through first, cause my husband will be inevitably stopped for something (coins in the pockets, a forgotten phone…), and we head the laptops through first so we can quickly grab them from the machine before everything else comes through and crunches all the luggage up. Don’t you just hate that? Why can’t they slow those things down?

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