Travel gear

What should you put into your travel bag if there’s a need for packing light? After hundreds of trips, including living out of a backpack for three years, I know a thing or two about how to pack well. Back in the early days of blogging in the ’00s, I did a guest post for …

I do a recurring article series on my favorite travel gear and travel clothing brands, with a few new updates each year, and lately I’ve been trying to mix up the apparel that goes in my suitcase a bit. This month I traveled for weeks with three new items from Toad and Co, (also written …

Outdoor clothing brands come and go, while some manage to stick around for decades because they’re dependable and have a stable of happy customers. One of my favorite brands that seems to be universally loved by outdoorsy types is Kuhl clothing (technically spelled KÜHL). I didn’t run into Kuhl very much until I started hitting …

Want to buy traveler gifts that are actually useful? Check out my suggestions updated in December of 2024.  This is the time of year when seemingly every magazine and travel blog has some kind of “ultimate travel gift guide” or “100 great gift ideas for the traveler on your list.” Many of the magazine ones …

If I remember right, I got my first Osprey Packs backpack in the mid-’00s, when I took off on my first trip to South America, around two decades ago. I used it for many more trips when I was on the move as a solo traveler. It’s still going strong.  A couple years later I …