Life Pro Tips

I can't find them online anymore, but I've had this exact model for several years and really like it (or similar) for travel. The cord winds up into the body and the round shape is accommodating of larger plugs. It rests flat in a bag so pretty easy to store.

I got it mainly for airports: no fighting over the one outlet if you can make it 5 outlets and share! Throw in one of these universal power adapter bricks and you're ready to go basically anywhere!

My LPT for travel is to buy a travel router and take the time to learn how to use it. They're little pager-sized wifi routers. Set up a secure network with it, attach all your devices to that network, then use the software they come with to have it mirror whatever hotel or airport or coffee shop wifi you are using. I have mine loaded with my VPN details as well. So all I need to do is get my laptop online, proxy the network on my travel router, and then all my devices (laptop, phone, switch, partner's phone and laptop, etc) are on my secure network and sharing my vpn securely over whatever public wifi I'm on. Mine has a little SD card storage as well, so it also acts like a mini hub for streaming movies or whatever.