[Elecraft] How do you travel with the K2?

[David Fleming]

It's mighty quite around here all of a sudden.

I'll be taking the K2 with me and the family on vacation this summer.
I'm trying to come up with a good way to package the rig for the
flight. I've never traveled with a radio before. I'll be taking the K2,
KAT100-1, MFJ-4225MV (I know, but it seems to be a fairly decent little
power supply), headset/mic, bencher paddles, cables, wire, some tools,
etc. My first thought was to give everything a good bubble wrapping and
put it all in a sturdy (hard shell) suitcase and be done with it. But I
can't treat my K2 that way. I'm thinking the best solution (within
reason) would be to buy a Pelican 1650 with the pluck foam and make a
nice cubby hole in the foam for everything. Or I could put the K2 and
KAT in a much smaller case and take it carry-on and put everything else
in a suitcase. Those Pelican cases are a bit pricey though. How do ya'll
(yous guys) do it? 

-David W4SMT