| GEARING UP KangaRoom offers storage products, including items for the traveler - some of which work great, others just OK. The favorite so far is the Travel Shoe Organizer, with three slots for shoes to keep their dirty bottoms from smudging your clothes in the suitcase, and two hooks for hanging once you get to the hotel. Two of the slots are big enough for a men’s size 13, while the third can hold women’s hiking boots.
Also good: small and large Activity Bags made of heavy-duty nylon, with removable dividers for dirty gym clothes and shoes, with little see- through slots that hold labels for each and Velcro seals to keep everything separate and tidy. What would elevate these bags to greatness would be short straps in addition to the shoulder one and padding on the strap.
Not quite working as intended is the Travel Snack Sac, a lunchbox of sorts with zippered pockets for ice packs (can’t take the gel ones on the plane, remember) that opens up to reveal a tray that can hold your drink, with mesh holders for food and utensils. The problem we had is that if the person in front of you on the plane has his seat back, the thing tips over, spilling your drink; we tried detaching the strap and shoving the top down behind the tray table, but that was unwieldy, and we had to take everything out to do it. But once home, a pre-teen snagged it for school and loves it. Travel Shoe Organizer, $19.95, Activity Bag $50 (small), $60 (large); Travel Snack Sac, $30, kangaroomstorage.com |  |
