Interesting...I've been a newbie here for about 3-4 months, and this past weekend I found the indy gear site through my own stumbling around. Of course, being outdoors gearheads it seems to fit. On the forums at that site, they have several threads talking about what they EDC in their MKVII gas mask bags.

About the Grail diaries. In addition to the 15-20 pages or so that you see in the Last Crusade, a computer game came out from Lucasfilm that had a printed grail diary as a companion. That grail diary had around 100 pages of mostly handwritten text with some illustrations that gave a very good outline of the grail legend. That is what most of the people who do grail diary reproductions use as filler material. You can also find very similar leather bound journals on that site as well.

After spending too much time on that site this weekend, I think I'm going to do an Indy costume for Halloween, if for no other reason than half the gear is stuff I'd wear most of the time anyway. Plus the MKVII bag looks like a great everyday bag for EDC and this would be a good way to ease it in at work so that I won't get the "man bag" comments.

Here's a replica of the WWII era MKVII bag: http://www.whatpriceglory.com/mkviibag.html

I'm planning on buying the long sleeve safari shirt from Cabelas as it matches the outfit and seems to be a decent piece of outdoor clothing. I'll probably usually sport my Tilley hat with it instead of the Indy fedora, though.