Choices(away from your den)

I have been traveling a lot for work lately and I can't use a cart without getting ingrown hairs, so I mail blades to the hotel and leave them over the weekend. I carry either my Above The Tie or Blackbird. I used to bring a tech or superspeed, but I didn't enjoy it as much, so I decided just to bring a good razor. I just bought an Omega s brush to keep in my travel container full time. I use AOS sample size shaving cream. I also bring witch hazel pads, an alum stick, bump stopper after shave, and Cremo SPF 20 face lotion. I have found that I don't get stopped by security if I go ahead and take my razor apart and leave it out. I forgot to take it out of my bag twice and I got stopped both times.

If I travel by plane, it's a cheap cartridge. But that is rare. My usual dopp kit?
La Toja stick
Lisa's Natural Shave Soap (I like my variety)
Gillette Travel Tech
Dovo Shavette (variety and choices again)
Maggard synthetic brush
Barbasol Brisk

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My shave kit is:
Mystic Waters stick (Poggio dei Pini currently)
Ubersoft knot in a vintage handle
Gillette Sperspeed
Unrefined Shea Butter (Thanks Celestino)

I carry a Gillette Fusion if it's an in-out quick trip and I carry-on

I pack the following for a carry-on bag:

Turkish copper hammered bowl
Catie's Bubbles LPV 3 oz shaving soap (I never use it at home)
One of my four awesome synthetic brushes
One of my 16 awesome 2oz bottles of Chatillon Lux aftershaves

I carry my DE razor in my shirt pocket, without a blade, so I can place it in the white tub for the conveyor belt. My current favorite for travel is the ATT H2. Usually, the TSA guy loves to hear my explanation when I get busted, and he usually smiles when I show him how it works, in part because it's so beautiful, and mostly because it doesn't have a blade loaded. Bigger smile when he hands it back to me. I only take DEs to travel because DE blades are much easier to find in foreign locales than injector blades, Gem blades, AC blades, FHS-10 blades or hair shapers.

When I'm staying at a hotel, I'll send blades ahead if I remember in time. When I'm staying with family, I know where my blade stashes are...

When I'm checking the bag, things are much easier.I think "What can I live with for X days without variety, be it razor, blades, brush, soap or aftershave?" The bowl is a constant, but everything else is very fluid, including the style of razor. Even with a checked bag, however, I keep the razor in my shirt pocket.

Even cartridge razor users can benefit from a premium shave soap or cream and a brush. For thise who can't take their safety razor because of TSA concerns, all is not lost.

Great thread. For some reason I always want to try something different when I travel. This past weekend my wife and I went out to the coast to visit friends and stay at their place on an island not far from Vancouver. I brought a Rockwell 6s with plate 3, feather blades, an EJ travel brush (badger), Pre de Provence No.66 shaving cream and some Chatillon Lux Delors de Treget aftershave in a small sample vial. OK, so mistakes were the brush and the cream. I couldn't get the cream to lather worth a darn and the brush underwhelmed also. I otherwise was able to get a decent shave and the Delors de Treget aftershave was awesome. I guess I'm pretty thick because I've done this before - trying out products that you haven't tried before or not used in a long time should be reserved for doing at home where you can abort if there's a problem and get stuff that works. On the road you're pretty much stuck with it so I have to remember to take tried and true only.

It all depends, I always check a bag so no issues bringing a DE. Brush Simpsons Chubby 2 synthetic, in Simpsons travel tube, I either bring a prewar Tech that I've put on a Razorock handle or my new travel razor the Wolfman Guerilla. Everything else is variable depending on reason for travel and length of stay, but usually Thayer's which hazel aftershave it's a nice unscented 2 in one and a shave stick for short trips or a variety of soap if it's longer than a week. I also keep a match book of alum in my shave kit, never needed it but if it wasn't there I probably would

Fatip Grande
Astra SP or PermaSharp Super blades
TGC Synthetic
Whetever soap samples I have on hand. Right now it's a Mystic Water Jeff's Lavender sample I put in a Tobasco Chocolate Tin, which is the perfect size for MW and Stirling samples.
Witch Hazel in small travel bottle.

If I'm staying with friends rather than in a hotel, I'll bring a few extra barber towels too.