Burley Nomad
Very nice review and responses. This type of thread is what it is all about. I started touring, many years ago, with panniers. I then went to a BOB and then to a Burley Nomad. Now I go back and forth between the Nomad and panniers with panniers winning out most of the time. The Nomad gets used a lot around town with shopping, recycling etc. Both trailers and the panniers all have their good and not so good points. The one thing that I do like about the Nomad is that it takes a lot of weight off of the bike so less worry about broken spokes.