More gear for the weary photographer traveller

I already have 3 trips to Europe scheduled for Q1 and managed to slot in a few extra days here and there for photo shoots and sight-seeing.

In prep I used up some membership points, got myself some gift cards to Amazon and upgraded my bag and added a monopod. Being delivered next week will be a Lowepro Vertex 100 AW Backpack ($180), Manfrotto 680B Monopod ($55) with a Manfrotto 486RC2 Compact Ball Head with RC2 Rapid Connect System ($70).

I'm toying with the idea that I might be able to take all of my lenses along now as well as my laptop for work (which is essential). We'll see when the gear comes how everything fits together.