News
One Bag Travel Challenge Seven days. One bag. Everything you need on your back and nothing you do not. That is the One Bag Travel Challenge. No checked luggage. No spare bag "just in case." No excuses about the weather,...
Continue reading
We Pay For Serious Reviews. We Don't Pay For Good Ones. Search "best travel backpack" right now and count how many results are actual reviews. Most aren't. Someone got paid on the condition it came back glowing, and the bag...
Continue reading
Go to almost any travel gear brand's site and you'll find a wall. Forty products. Packing cubes, three sizes of backpack, a "collection," a bundle, an upsell. It looks like abundance. It's actually the opposite, it's a warehouse and a...
Continue reading
I've carried this bag through South Sudan, Togo, Spain, and South Africa. It's been dropped on tarmac, soaked in rain, stuffed under bus seats, and left in the dirt while I filmed. Here's what actually happened to it no studio...
Continue reading
Field Report - Gear Most "best backpack" lists are written by someone who never left the office. This one wasn't. Here's what actually survives ferries, dust roads, and border crossings. Fumba coast, Zanzibar. No studio. No stylist. Just the pack...
Continue reading
