A while back, my younger brother called me, asking what I knew about cross-body/sling bags. I replied that I knew nothing and asked him why he was asking. He said he wanted to have something for his everyday carry items, so I popped on to a popular online merchant's website, asked if he wanted something rectangular or more diamond-shaped. He said the latter, I sent him the first link I found, and he said, "Perfect, ordering." Assistance complete.
A month or two later, he and his fiancee were visiting (we live a few hundred miles apart) and he and I had to run to a home-improvement store. I noticed that he had a bag on his back and I realized that it was the bag mentioned above. I asked how he liked it and he said, "I love it."
A few days later, I was staring at the ceiling, trying to fall back asleep and I was struck by a thought: "Why don't *I* have a cross-body/sling bag?!"
That inquiry began a months-long journey of getting stuff out of my pockets and that journey would have been a heck of a lot shorter (and cheaper) had I paused and reflected on features I actually needed. Many bags later, I realized that I'm a fan of lots of internal organization and, to the point of this review, I find that Tom Bihn seem to be the only manufacturer that takes that feature seriously. I like the ability to unzip my bag, extract an item, use it, put it back, and re-zip, all without looking and my Side Kick lets me do that.
I also realized that pretty much every bag which lacks…
