Let me tell you about my recent vacation in Europe. I had my sl-6000 with just about all the gear mentioned on this thread -- cf ethernet was especially handy. The bad part is that ALL of it was stolen in Prague!!!
So, lesson learned is that it is more important to NOT take anything that you really don't want to loose -- like personal info. I had a 6gb microdrive with all kinds of info that should not have been on it, like copies of my tax returns, etc.
Hope you have better luck!