Gadget Reviews
Mini LED Flashlight
We’ve learned from traveling all over, that it never hurts to have a small flashlight with you. Ours have come in handy during power outages overseas, reading on an overnight flight
or even looking for house numbers on a dark street. We prefer the small travel size LED type flashlights. The batteries last forever and you can’t beat the brightness and the distance of the beam. Plus, it can also come in handy in an emergency to signal for help. Almost all of travel-size flashlights are extremely small, lightweight and very easy to pack.
PacSafe
What do you do if your hotel room doesn’t have a safe? What do you do if it’s not big enough to hold everything you want to protect? PacSafe is the answer. We use these whenever we want to leave our backpacks, camera equipment or other baggage in our hotel room, without worrying whether it will be there when we get back. The PacSafe Backpack and Bag Protector comes in four different sizes. For us, the two largest sizes work best. You can easily fit a regular size carry-on or large backpack in these sizes.
The PacSafe expands in seconds and easily fits around your bag. Once it’s around your bag, you tighten it and secure it to anything in your hotel room. You’ll want to pick something that can’t be easily removed. We usually pick something like a bed frame, dresser or even a toilet. All PacSafes come with a tamper proof, strengthened key padlock. The one downfall is that then you have to hope you don’t lose the keys. We purchased a PacSafe combination lock to use instead. That way we don’t have keys to worry about.
The PacSafe collapses and stores easily in a compact carrying case. We have several, so we always make sure to pack one in our carry-on and put the others in our checked baggage. That way should your checked bags take a detour, you still have at least one to keep your valuables secure. PacSafe also makes travel bags, laptop bags, wallets and others using similar technology. With “slash-proof” straps and reinforced slashguard panels. You can checkout more at Amazon or on PacSafe’s website.
