We’ve spent a tremendous amount of time putting together some of the best leather backpacks that are available online today. We have a selection of some of the highest quality brands like Tumi, Mulholland Brothers and Bric’s, as well as more affordable but high-quality pieces from Piel Leather. If you are in the market for a Leather Backpack now, call us so we can help you make the best pick available.

Quick update after the Christmas rush has ended. There are a bunch of new OGIO bags on sale. Check out the 2007 OGIO 7900 and the OGIO 6900. Better stuff coming every day.

One of the most unique and cool bags I have seen is the OGIO Locker Bag (especially the black version). It is actually a virtual locker for your stuff, bring your dress shoes, comb and hair stuff put it in the bag and lock it up while you play bball with your friends. This bag quickly became a favorite when going to the gym when I found out how much stuff I could fit inside of it.

Since we have wine carriers on the brain right now, we just did checked out a new Mulholland Leather Wine Carrier which are probably the best in class for Wine Carriers on the market. The best thing to use these for are corporate gifts, or gifts to your partner, we can engrave them with anything you’d like, and it makes for a great gift.

We have a new Leather Wine Carrier to add to our already big selection. This time its from Ghurka who makes an expensive, but well made carrier that’s a great buy for the holidays. We’ve been selling the carriers out fast in the past couple weeks, so get on one for the holidays quick!

I just noticed a cool new feature for anyone using Google’s Gmail service. Recently Google launced Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which is essentially an online version of Microsoft’s Office program. Well they have a great way of integrating these new features for Gmail users. When people send you spreadsheets now, you can open your docs directly into your browser, and save them for later in your online folder. This is one of the greatest time saving items I’ve seen in a while, everyone has a ton of documents in emails that they use as their “storage”, but Google takes it one step further so that we can more efficiently keep track of all the documents that we get bombarded with everyday.

The Berlin Art Forum was held this week, we saw some pictures from the event on High Snobiety’s website.  What stood out most to me (and most relevant to the readers of this blog). Is this interesting piece, which seems to translate to “You’re sure it’s mine luggage?”  Anyway, we’ve all been there, and this is a humorous take on waiting for our luggage, the thing we all hate doing at the airport.

Tumi introduced a new golf bag today that is only available in during the month of October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) called the Bernadette. This unique golf bag retails for $450 USD and 20% of the retail price will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. So go out and create awareness for this important issue, and you get a great Tumi bag as well, the bag comes with a removeable rain hood, is made from nylon with leather trim, and has eight zip pockets.

See more information on the Bernadette at Tumi’s Website.

A sporty brand with extreme products. From humble beginnings to a modern phenomenon, top gear bag designer OGIO still thrives on the substance that spurred its existence…vision. Michael Pratt fostered the prodigy that is OGIO, and with intuition and a little financial reinforcement spawned the young company’s venture into gear bag design. With an innovative line of duffles and packs loaded with excess features, OGIO dished out the inner extreme everyone craved. With this driving appetite, OGIO reinvented golf with a fresh contemporary line and a pimped out “golf cart”, more widely known as the BRV (battle-ready vehicle). OGIO spurred new age golf, and recognized the vast potential of their entity. Sharing a synonymous intense direction with action sports, OGIO’s eminence emerged from the get-go with the production of the hit motocross film “Global Addiction”. With a die-hard crew and collective insight, OGIO gathered top athletes from across the nation from moto, BMX, skate, snow, and surf to produce Team OGIO. Together OGIO designers and athletes unite to create specific action sports packs. This cutting-edge company has single handedly revolutionized bag design and there is more where that came from.

Looks, Style and the price make this extreme brand one of our favorites. Remember, cool bags that make sense are hard to find.

Just saw that some of the 2007 OGIO Styles / Colors are rolling in. Check out the new 2007 OGIO 9800 This is one of the best updates I’ve seen from the Company in a couple years, the Tweed was a great choice!! Also for all of you Punk Rock fans from 2006, check out Punk Rock Red in 2007. Also the Icon print above is amazing. There should be some additional colors coming in for November, like Mothwing? and Brown Pin Stripe, can’t wait to see those. I’ve attached all the new images, here, but the three I mentioned, the Tweed, Punk Rock Red and Icon are the ones I’m most excited about.

More colors after the jump

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We just came across this great blog Day in the Life of My Tumi that is an often humorous take on Tumi luggage, and is a must read for anyone considering buying into Tumi’s T3 collection. One of the really interesting things we noticed in this blog was the first post Inspiration for the Tumi Blog Mark, the author, goes on to document a compliant he had with his favorite luggage brand, and received two letters from the President expressing concern and asking Mark to be a new field tester for Tumi. If you are a road-weary frequent traveler you can relate to most of the articles in this great blog.

Check it out at Day in the Life of My Tumi

Hartmann was founded by Joseph S. Hartmann as the Hartmann Trunk Co. in 1877, and was originally based in Milwaukee, WI. The brand has always been a symbol of luxury and quality goods since it’s inception. The Company rose to prominence in the 1930s when they introduced the belt from a flywheel that were used in tanneries. Using this belt, Hartmann introduced Belting Leather, that eventually became the company’s signature. During the 1940s the company made a significant contribution to the United States effort in World War II.

By 1973 when air travel became more and more prevalent, the Company pioneered carry-on luggage with it’s 747 collection. In 2002 the Company celebrated it’s 125th Anniversary, and continues to be one of the most luxurious luggage lines made today.

If anyone hasn’t checked out Cool Hunting yet, it’s definitely a must read. Today they posted on some yoga accessories and have some great finds, including yogi toes which I use in my own practice. Best of all they featured the Text Yoga Mat from PLANK. One of our favorites, Cool Hunting refers to this as “‘More Hipster, Less Hippie’ approach to yoga gear”. We are happy to see PLANK receiving the recognition they deserve for creating the best yoga mats in the biz.

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There are a ton of travel books, magazines and travel writers out there that help people get to the best “finds” in a particular city. The great travel site Gadling has tipped us to a series of books that help one not only visit a location, but the best things to do when you LIVE there. Although the series is relatively short at the moment (only for Ireland, Costa Rica, Mexico and a few others) these books should give you a great in-depth view of what it is actually like to live in a foreign city as an Expat. Also thanks to gadling, check out the Telegraphs Expat Events Guide which should help if you are looking to find a bit of home.

The Omni William Penn is the best Hotel in Pittsburgh for the business traveler. It’s centrally located within the Pittsburgh business district, and has Free Internet Access in all the rooms. And if you are not staying at the hotel, or waiting for your room to get ready, there is a Starbucks hotspot within the hotel. I also think there is free-wifi in the Lobby, but don’t quote me on that. The prices are great for a four star hotel, every time I have checked, the starting prices are $109! Don’t really have anything bad to say about this hotel in my review, which is atypical In my limited experience of Pittsburgh, this hotel seems to be a good, safe bet. And is really the only place I’m going to try when I go back.