Travel is a big part of my work life. With that I compiled the list of things I can't travel without:

Tumi Ducati Suiter
At the end of last year I bought myself a present for all my travel, the Tumi Ducati T3 carry-on with built-in suiter. The bag features the standard Tumi quality and breaks the mold of your standard black bag. The built-in suiter is the sweet thing though. Rather than carrying a separate suit/folding bag, you can easily include a coat and a few dress shirts. If you keep things in their original dry-cleaning bag everything comes out perfect. You're not still checking bags are you?

Ex-Officio Travel Clothing
If you travel a bunch and you're not wearing Ex-Officio you don't know what you're missing. The majority of my travel wardrobe is now Ex-Officio. The travel clothing is comfortable, resists wrinkles and is durable..plus it looks good. With a proper roll/packing job I can fit a week's worth of clothing in my 22" Tumi carry-on.

LowePro CompuRover AW
Sure it's a big backpack, but it needs to be to carry my laptop, my camera and all my lenses. Yes I take my camera and lenses everywhere. The CompuRover does the job and protects everything inside. My standard luggage haul is the CompuRover and the Tumi.

Fly Clear
I've written about this before, so has Anil Dash and Frank Gruber. If you frequent airports that have CLEAR you need to sign-up. The ability to bypass the standard line for security is well worth the yearly cost. My home(s)-away-from-home are MCO, SFO, SJC, IND, EWR..they all have CLEAR.

MacBook Pro + EVDO
Somewhat of a duh....but yes the MBP is my primary work machine. The true mobile office experience comes with EVDO. Sure just about every laptop has wifi, but so many airports still charge an absurd rate for wifi (same for hotels). With EVDO I rarely have to use the paid (and even free) wifi.

Nikon D80
Since purchasing my D80 in 2006 there is not a trip that is has not gone on. I also carry all my lense (50mm f/1.4, 17-55mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f2.8 and 10.5mm f/2.8). Yes it gets heavy sometimes, but it's worth it. It allow me to take pictures like this and this...to showcase just a few.

iPhone
The promise of the iPhone was that it condensed the features of a few devices to one form-factor. That's certainly true in my case. My iPhone is now my iPod and my video player. Before any trip to California I load up at least two movies.

Sony PSP
This is the latest edition to the travel must-haves. I recently received one of the new slim-PSP's. The current game-addiction of the moment is LEGO Star Wars II. If unchecked, the PSP can provide hours of inflight entertainment :-) Yes you can watch movies on it, but I've got that covered with my iPhone.

Hertz #1 Gold
People seem to think that you need to use Hertz frequently to apply for #1 Gold, i.e. build up points or miles to get the benefits, you don't. Sign-up online and store you credit card information and some other things online. Each time you rent, your car is auto-magically waiting for you. Each time I fly to SFO and walk past those huge lines at the rental car counter I wonder, why don't these people sign-up for #1 Gold?

There are some other items that help, i.e. Delta Crown Room, a good frequent flier program, etc.

Now to turn this into a meme :-) I have a few colleagues that travel quite a bit as well. Let's see what they have to say: Jake, Shel, Chris, Tom??