The Drifter from STM — a Backpack I’ll Keep

The Drifter from STM — an especially good pack for carrying a laptop. Photo by Clark Norton

Last week, while on a cruise along the Mississippi River with American Cruise Lines, I brought my laptop along to get some blogging done (which, oddly enough, I managed to do — the results will start showing up next week, as I chronicle my time aboard the Queen of the Mississippi).

But first, I wanted to put in a plug for a very good backpack I carried my 15-inch laptop in, along with my rather bulky laptop charger cord and what must have been dozens of sheets of random papers, notebooks, manuscripts, and — as I traveled and accumulated stuff — sightseeing brochures, cruise dinner menus, receipts, used airplane boarding passes, etc.

And that was just in the top-loading zippered main compartment. (The inner area contains extra padding to… Continue reading →