Friend challenged me to do this without electronics...
1. Notebook with pen
2. Lonely Planet travel and language guide
3. Guitar
If you could only take 3 things…
Three things? Well, only if my homemade travel first aid kit counts as one item! Seriously, I can and will save your life with it. 
I go nowhere without it, even to the store. You never know... I could travel with just my purse and be fine.
Otherwise:
camera
multitool/pocket knife (which has gotten through more than one international airport -- 
)
munchies, which can make for great bribes when travelling in a group
I think
Camera
-snip- papers
phone which doubles as a music player
-snip-
[ Edit: Sorry, no promos please. ]
It truly makes me cry how many people are choosing their phone. I have aged myself out of this generation's travel culture, clearly. I thought travel was a way to disconnect from the things you knew to experience life in a new way...Now it's just a really long trip to the mall. I am aghast at how many travellers are wandering around with their toploaders in a new city not looking around because they are so focussed on remote Tetris and what their BFF had for lunch.
Oh, I expect to take a hit for that...But it's how I feel.
I assume passport and money are included, so:
1. Multitool
2. Compass
3. 16 Gig IPod.
[ Edit: Edited on 13-Nov-2009, at 19:47 by Piecar ]
Number Three was just so you could smugly point and mock...Aren't I a considerate aged, decrepit, out of touch curmudgeon?
3. It's a toss up between a camera and a journal. I lean towards journal, cuz I can sketch in there too.
Number 4 would have been "a watch" because apparently people are foregoing them in favour of their phones...yet are unable to see the time on their phones(at a guess, I would say that Tetris obscures the time). I answer "Que hora es" about five times a day.
D
[ Edit: Edited on 13-Nov-2009, at 19:51 by Piecar ]
1. Ipod
2. Camera
3. Cash/credit card
1. camera
2. map
3. hat
Phone
Passport
Lip Balm
a towel - obvious reasons
good shoes
bicycle
Book, camera and ear plugs.