Display Port to a Variety of Monitors?

I need to connect my MacBook Air to a variety of monitors as I travel. Mostly I need HDMI, but sometimes DVI or VGA. Rather than carry a lot of cables, I'd like to carry a long Display Port cable with three adapters that would allow me to connect to HDMI, DVI or VGA as needed. It seems as though this would be an off-the-shelf package, but not only don't I see an all-in-one package, I don't see individual Display Port to ---- adapters. (I see cables, but not adapters.) Am I trying to solve my problem the wrong way, or is there such a product(s) but I just haven't run across it?

That's kinda on the right track, but this device would still require that I carry three different cables. My fantasy is this same device but with male rather than female connectors to be able to connect to the three flavors of monitors. Since one piece of plastic might not work for tight spaces on the monitors, I imagine that the device will have to have short cables coming out of it -- even if just a few inches (see diagram).
Now if long cable A (in the diagram) needs to be an HDMI cable with a Display Port to HDMI adapter that's okay. In that case, then the hydra only needs to have two heads VGA and DVI. In fact, in my original idea, each of the adapters (C in the diagram) were separate rather than a single hydra. Separate or together doesn't matter to me.

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