Because I know you all want to see...

[succubuswench]

Here are photos of my backpack, loaded down with ~30lbs of gear. It will serve as my carry on. Fortunately I don't have any more lenses because it leaves me room to carry on my binoculars too, rather than having to check them. The backpack's going to work out much better than the shoulder bag. I hate that I bought the shoulder bag, what was I thinking? So now I have a huge, new (used once), LowePro Stealth Reporter 650AW for sale, if anyone's interested. Complete with the optional belt.

I'm posting the large photosx4, so you can read the text. Prob. not terribly dial up friendly, although I optimized for web.