Travel Tuesday: Ten Things I Never Leave Home Without

 GQ has a series on YouTube where they interview celebrities and ask them what their 10 essentials are.  I kind of enjoy it, here is my list of ten things I never leave home without.

1: A good camera, I am carrying a Nikon D5500 and an 18-200 mm lens.  

2: My Chromebook, it is lightweight, has a long battery life. If I drop it down a flight of stairs, the world won't come to an end, they are relatively inexpensive. 

3: My bag of chargers, and cables, I keep this packed in my messenger bag. 

4: My Timbuk2 messenger bag.  Expensive and worth every penny.  

5: My Kindle e-reader. 

6: A notebook, current one is red. 

7: Ms. Garmin, if I am renting a car, or driving my car, I take a portable GPS unit with me and go wherever the little voice tells me to go. 

8: Asics Cumulus running shoes.  I think I am the 24th version, they are my daily go to, I have half a dozen pairs of them. 

9: A cheap plastic rain poncho, these are intended for single emergency use, there always one in my messenger bag, they have saved me in a downpour a few times. 

10: An old fashioned mechanical watch.  My current one is a Seiko self wind. It is easy to set, as the time zones change.  The movement is a Japanese copy of a Rolex. If you look around you can find them for less than $100, I have heard that they have stopped making the movement, so grab them while you can.