~35 mm camera with lenses, extra battery and Fuji slide film! <BR>~Travel alarm clock <BR>~Cd's (for driving, I TRY to listen to local radio in my room) <BR>~Hair dryer, I bought one in Italy, France and South Africa. One of them always works somewhere!(sorry those luke warm blowing dragons in the hotels are too wimpy...and I'm sick of transformers promising to perform that always catch fire!) <BR>~Hand held small tape recorder. (great for fabulous guides, conversations with locals, or while driving and can't stop to write) <BR>~Corkscrew/bottle opener (hey, it isn't electronic, but essential!)

Couldn't help adding my two cents. My husband brought his laptop on our last trip and, of course, on the flight over my son (in his sleep) freakishly kicked a cup of orange juice precariously perched on a tray table into the laptop's hard drive. Lucky us, we got to schlep that thing all over Europe even though it was no longer working. Did we learn a valuable lesson? Yes, we can live without the laptop for 18 days (but only if ample wine is available to ease the withdrawl tremors).

I don't think clocks are electronics (nor some other things mentioned on here, like hair dryers), but as a tip, batteries don't just run out suddenly in a clock as it uses so little energy. It starts losing time -- if you put the battery in a few days ahead of time and after a couple days, it still is keeping correct time, you are fine.

No electronics, but yes to a small camera and an itty bitty flashlight. I work in an office surrounded by electronic devices, I go on vacation to get away from work and home.

Garage door opener.

Micro-size hair-dryer <BR>Small camera with lots of film <BR>Travel alarm clock

Hello all, I would never leave home without my "noisey"! It blocks out unwanted noise, keeping me asleep, therefore sane and happy. It runs and batteries, keeps time, and is very low tech, and essential to me. Judy :-)

Only a curling iron and my point & shoot camera. My alarm is wind-up (Elaine, you aren't the only one!), and, like JOdy, I leave everything else at home. I'm on vacation and don't have anything with me that reminds me of my hum-drum existence. Don't even rent a cell-phone. If I ever HAVE to call home (which I did once), I use a pay phone. The rest of the time home doesn't exist for me. My family has my itinerary--if they have to get in touch with me, they can. But other than that, they know they won't hear from me till I get back.

The only plug-in item we brought was the charger for our digital camera. I used the hotel hair dryers and husband used a regular razor!

Wind up alarm clock! It goes tick-tick and has glow-in-the-dark hands (I pack it near the top of the suitcase should a security person get antsy). Oh, and an alarm on it that would wake the dead.