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Claire Litton wrote earlier this week about traveling low-res as a genuine option to lugging all those i-products around. The timing was right on the heels of my recent digital breakdown.
I probably should have known better than to plan to do a few social media updates and minor editing tasks while I was spending a long weekend in St. Kitts. My cellular carrier assured … Read more »
For extended travels your pack is your single most important piece of gear (unless of course you opt to go minimalist and skip the bag altogether). If you’re good at packing light, but want some extra protection for your laptop and other electronic gizmos, Keen’s Airport Way backpack makes a great choice.
The bag is slightly larger than your average school backpack and … Read more »
The “pack light” mantra has been beaten into travelers who don’t have personal jets. It’s a good practice, too. Have you been following Rolf’s No Baggage Challenge?
It’s much easier to pack light when you can leave toiletries at home and just buy inexpensive replacements in your destination. It can also be simple, depending on where you’re going, to just pick up an extra T-shirt … Read more »
Travelers have all sorts of ways of hiding valuables on their person — passport pouches, hip belts, fanny packs, even custom sewn pockets. On such option is the SPIbelt, the Small Personal Item Belt (pronounced spy-belt).
The SPIbelt is small, lightweight, slightly-hipper-than-normal fanny pack. The SPIbelt is made of very stretchy nylon so, despite its tiny size, it can hold a surprising amount … Read more »
I recently returned from a two month road-trip around the United States. It had been almost ten years since I had traveled extensively inside the United States and it was, as you might expect, very different than my last trip.
Aside from the negative aspects — more sprawl, less open space and so on — the one thing that really caught my eye … Read more »
As you may have noticed, Rolf is currently in the midst of traveling around the world with only what he can carry in his pockets. He’s got a toothbrush, a change of underpants, and an iPod Touch to do his blog posting from, as well as some presumably bulging cargo pants pockets. I did see one blog post on his round-the-world-as-a-lightweight diary, pointing out that replicating the experience for women would be majorly worth a … Read more »
Most vagabonds seem to travel in t-shirts, but there are times you might want something a bit nicer — perhaps for a job interview overseas, or when you splash out for nice meal with that special someone you just met.
Nice clothes also make it really easy to wander into five-star hotels and use the pool for a day when you get tired of the … Read more »
Cheap guesthouses are de rigueur for budget-conscious vagabonds. Unfortunately cheap often means suffering lumpy, rock-hard mattresses, grungy sheets and suspect bedding.
While there’s not much you can do about mattresses that feel like plywood, when it comes to sheets and bedding, many vagabonds opt for some sort of travel sheet — a layer between you and whatever might be lurking on the “clean” sheets.
Before we get into the review, let’s be honest, no, you don’t need the GoLite TraveLite bag. In fact, the old backpack gathering dust in your closet will do just fine. Buy less stuff, travel more.
Now that that’s out of way, GoLite’s TraveLite convertible bag is actually a pretty nice pack for those that want to, well, travel light.
The secret to traveling … Read more »
Clean water is one of the major issues facing the developing world. As outsiders, vagabonds typically rely on bottled water in such areas, but plastic water bottles are a major contributor to disturbing things such as the Pacific’s trash island, to say nothing of the strain they put on local landfills.
The far better option … Read more »