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My favorite travel hack: Wool shirts and wool socks. They need washing less often so you pack less clothing. And, showering with hand-sanitizer on arm pits. https://www.woolly.clothing/collections/190-gsm-shirts/produ... https://unboundmerino.com/collections/socks https://www.smartertravel.com/unbound-merino-womens-v-neck-r...
Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.
My favorite travel hack: Wool shirts and wool socks. They need washing less often so you pack less clothing. And, showering with hand-sanitizer on arm pits. https://www.woolly.clothing/collections/190-gsm-shirts/produ... https://unboundmerino.com/collections/socks https://www.smartertravel.com/unbound-merino-womens-v-neck-r...
They also dry very quickly when you do wash them. Very convenient for hotel/hostel sink laundry days. My first longer-than-a-weekend trip was 2 weeks and I took cotton undershirts (mistakes were made). Since they tend to pick up odor quickly (at least the way I sweat) I had several days worth and they took a while to dry. Switching to wool shirts, I could pack 3 and do laundry once on the trip and no one would notice…
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The absurd restrictions on knives really needs to go. A blade is a necessary tool for a lot of people in everyday life. It's time to get over the unfounded fear and face reality like adults. It's especially ridiculous because of how ineffective it is, https://onemileatatime.com/tsa-fails-tests-95-percent/ . This is a worthless waste of resources that only serves to inconvenience regular people and give the masses som…
Just put it in any small cardboard box and have it shipped as you would do with a small bag, then collect it from the baggage collection place upon arrival.
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Seeing this right now also in the "bikepacking"/"gravel" community. Sure, custom bike bags and nice performance wear are comfort-increasing costs, but very quickly things skyrocket away from functional/utilitarian toward things like brand fealty, collective hype, etc. If you drill down, you will usually not be able to justify an expensive part vs a cheaper alternative (esp. used!), except for things like electronic d…
In the hiking community travelling light has become an obsession for some people. Some going as far as cutting their tooth brush in half just to shave of a few grams. I get spending a fortune on a lightweight tent and gas burner which can save you several kilograms in your backpack, but when you go down to shaving off 10g and less I think it has moved away from the practical over to a hobby in and of itself. Nothing…
I used to travel every week as a consultant. I did this for about 2 years. The goruck GR1 26L bag is easily the best one bag travel bag imo. I'm 6ft tall 200 pounds and I can fit a week and a half of clothes in the bag depending on the weather. After I left my consultant job I took a couple months and just traveled around Europe with it. Trains, planes, etc. The open flat design is critical for good packing. The bag…
I was super tempted by the GR bags a while back, but I ultimately couldn't get past the "tactical" look. Where I live, at least, tactical stuff signals a political leaning I don't share.
Since I have the all black version it ended up not being a big deal.
They have a slick version that doesn't have the webbing (which I never use anyway) and if I was buying it today that's the version I would get.
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Sure, that’s exactly my philosophy, to bring things that can be trivially substituted or replaced. The electronics are also trivially substituted, grab another black rectangle of glass off the shelf and have the cloud repopulate your profile.
Then we are in agreement, a list of mostly clothes is not a "brittle" set of items. They are all trivially replaceable.
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It's so inconsistent too. I cannot bring my safety razors on board, but it's ok to bring a bunch of razor cartridges that are filled with blades... Even traveling with the safety razor but no blades is inconvenient, since the TSA will frequently do a secondary inspection to confirm that there is really no blade. So you gotta travel with the thing disassembled which means I cannot use my regular case.
Sometimes you can even buy a full set of kitchen knives in the duty free shop on your way to the airplane!
And any battery can be used to start a fire.
http://artoftravel.net is the original and still the best.
The site focuses too much on the bag and not enough on the context that determines how you travel. For some kinds of travel, you don't need a bag at all. For some you have to compromise on what you bring. For some, carrying more than one bag is just optimal. Most of my international travel has used one bag. In many cases I use hacks to avoid even paying the carry-on fee, and very rarely I'm caught and have to pay for…