Luxury Indefinite Travel | 24L 7kg

  •   Category Weight
  • Pack
    1.18 kg
  • Clothes
    1.18 kg
  • Organization
    0.62 kg
  • Utility
    0.6 kg
  • Luxury
    2.06 kg
  • Electronics
    0.72 kg
  • Toiletries
    0.34 kg
  • Extra Comfort Utility
    0.23 kg
  • Necessities
    0.22 kg
  • Situation Dependent
    2.4 kg
  • Worn
    0 kg
  • Total 9.57
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    • lb
    • g
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  • Consumable 0.05 kg
  • Worn 2.4 kg
  • Base Weight 7.12 kg

Everything on this list has a purpose, ideally several purposes. I have done my best to slim down to only items that I will actually use on most trips. There are plenty of items here that I could do without and be okay - but that I have judged to have enough of a weight to convenience ratio to be worth their space.

I use most of these things in my daily life outside of travel as well, living in the PNW without a car. If you take out the clothes and toiletries it's just my normal daily backpack as I make my way around the city on public transit. Makes packing for a trip completely trivial. Most of my trips are to urban areas throughout the US and Canada and so do not need things to handle extreme temperatures or to take it on the trail.

I’ve designed and labeled this as “indefinite”, not because I actually travel for an extended length of time (though I’d like to someday) but because it’s the same list I’d take for 4 days and for 4 weeks. I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t be able to comfortably live out of this bag.

A few notes:

  • All my clothes are quick drying, so I can do laundry in the evening, hang dry overnight and they're dry in the morning. Makes me able to do laundry every few days even when time is tight.
  • It's nice to leave room in the pack, having it be completely full can be quite annoying especially when I want to take my sweatshirt off and not hold it.
  • Things in the "extra comfort utility" section come in handy but really just give me some extra piece of mind knowing that certain scenarios are covered.
  • One of the reasons I travel with only a personal item is so I can buy the cheapest airfare possible. This has the side effect of sometimes staying the night and/or a long time in the airport, and I have a whole setup to make that as comfortable as possible.

Always a work in progress. It's fun to optimize and iterate.

Last updated December 2023