Thirteen pounds?!?

Thirteen pounds. That’s the weight limit for your carry-on bag when you fly Virgin Atlantic. Forget trying to smoosh everything into your compact carry-on bag, the weight restriction turns “traveling light” into a whole new ballgame. We’ll be heading to Europe later this year and flying Premium Economy to London Heathrow, and our challenge will …

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Reusable Handi Wipes

These days when you think of “handy wipes,” you think of moist pop-up sheets. In fact, you can get these moist towelettes in a variety of forms and prices. Baby wipes, cosmetic facial wipes, toilet wipes… scented, unscented, flushable, nonflushable… in plastic tubs, stackable plastic bricks, small pocket pouches… the list goes on. They are …

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More on bottles (or eyedropper bottles, take 2)

Based on the blog comments and email I’m getting, there seems to be a lot of questions and concern about the use of bottles in carry-on luggage. Instead of having these hidden in email exchanges or buried in the blog comments I thought I’d revisit this topic again. Kelle shared this experience: One thing about …

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Checkpoint Friendly

[Updated December 2, 2008] You will soon be able to keep your laptop in your case when you go through airport security checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration announced last week that they will begin allowing laptops to be screened through their X-ray machine while they are still in bags. The catch? The bags have to …

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Clear Pass data takes off

This is just a short post for anyone who paid their $100 to the TSA to get a Clear registered traveler card that lets you go through an express line at the airport security checkpoint. A laptop containing uncrypted data for 33,000 customers (of 200,000 applicants) of the program was stolen from a locked office …

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