How are you allowed to separately carry a knapsack and a keyboard? I've been restricted to "one personal item" which is far smaller than a knapsack and little larger than an eye glass case. You don't mention the strategy of wearing ALL of the clothes for the trip onto the plane. That way you can squeeze your prescription vials into the glasses case and perhaps remain in compliance with the "one personal item" rule. (Perhaps you stash the laptop in your waist band at the rear and conceal it with a shawl or cape?)
I don't really carry a typewriter; I was just invoking the size and weight of like an old Underwood or Hermes manual typewriter, to convey that the Mom Purse is a very large and capacious bag! So that's my "personal item," and the backpack is my "carry-on bag." I have been known to wear all of my bulkiest clothes—coat, heavy sweater or raincoat, fleece vest, hiking boots, Indiana Jones–style adventure hat—onto the plane, but that makes it hard to fit into the seat. For a while there, I was wearing clothes with a lot of pockets and carrying pills, glasses, spare underpants, oral hygiene implements, etc. in my pockets, but the TSA started demanding you empty your pockets before going through the scanner, because we can't have nice packing strategies.
How are you allowed to separately carry a knapsack and a keyboard? I've been restricted to "one personal item" which is far smaller than a knapsack and little larger than an eye glass case. You don't mention the strategy of wearing ALL of the clothes for the trip onto the plane. That way you can squeeze your prescription vials into the glasses case and perhaps remain in compliance with the "one personal item" rule. (Perhaps you stash the laptop in your waist band at the rear and conceal it with a shawl or cape?)
I don't really carry a typewriter; I was just invoking the size and weight of like an old Underwood or Hermes manual typewriter, to convey that the Mom Purse is a very large and capacious bag! So that's my "personal item," and the backpack is my "carry-on bag." I have been known to wear all of my bulkiest clothes—coat, heavy sweater or raincoat, fleece vest, hiking boots, Indiana Jones–style adventure hat—onto the plane, but that makes it hard to fit into the seat. For a while there, I was wearing clothes with a lot of pockets and carrying pills, glasses, spare underpants, oral hygiene implements, etc. in my pockets, but the TSA started demanding you empty your pockets before going through the scanner, because we can't have nice packing strategies.