Messenger Bag for Travel

[mrjohnnyglass]

Heading to Europe in a month for 3 weeks. Hitting Paris, London, and the Canary Islands/Tenerife. The wife will have our daughter in a front facing Ergobaby sling, along with a frame camping backpack. I need to take my 15" MBP, charger, Magic Mouse, along with 2 pairs of jeans, 3 t-shirts, a bathing suit, and socks/underwear with me. Would prefer to take all of this in one bag if I could. Really looking for something leather, waterproof, with a crossbody strap that could be detachable. Hopefully staying under $150.

 

[Huffboys1]

Waterfield designs is based in San Francisco. They design and make quality bags/backpacks/sleeves for the apple line up. I have been using their leather outback solo bag for a few months and having nothing but positive things to say about it. Im not sure if they have anything that you are looking for at your $150 price point but they are worth checking out.

 

[TonyK]

Waterfield designs

Looked at the Air Porter and it looks like a nice bag.

 

[MacGizmo]

Nomatic makes superb backpack/bags (they're actually both). Unfortunately they're not cheap. $200 is the cheapest they have, but you might want to check them out anyway. You may find they're exactly what you want and worth the price.

 

[mk313]

Not leather and they're not waterproof (at least without the optional rain cover) but both Tortuga and Minaal make nice smaller sized travel backpacks. I have a Tortuga Air (they don't make it any longer, but if you can find one they should be pretty cheap now) that would easily fit what you are looking to take. I got mine off eBay about 2 years ago for around $120 & bought the optional rain cover for around $15. They're built for travel with laptops, etc so they have a separate compartment (closer to the body to help with load distribution) for the laptop that helps to keep your electronics safe.

 

[Huffboys1]

Looked at the Air Porter and it looks like a nice bag.

Their bags are so much nicer in person than compared to online.