Category Archives: Gear & Packing

The Importance of Travel Insurance: How I was refunded over $1000

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Travel insurance is one of those topics that is under constant debate in the travel world. Do I really need to buy expensive insurance? Will I really end up using it? Or will it just be a waste of money? Is it better to be safe than sorry? I’m more in the mindset of the latter category. I’d rather have a fall back just in case something happens. Plus my Continue reading The Importance of Travel Insurance: How I was refunded over $1000→

What’s in my backpack for 3 years of traveling?

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Probably one of the biggest questions I get asked about my trip other than ‘How the heck can you afford to do that??’ is ‘What the heck are you bringing with you??’ The answer is not a whole lot but actually quite a bit more than you’d expect. I promise it’ll make sense by the end of this post. I hope to answer all your burning packing questions and leave you Continue reading What’s in my backpack for 3 years of traveling?→

My new best friend: my backpack

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For my first post about travel gear and packing, what more fitting topic to discuss than my backpack! I did a lot of research leading up to the final choosing of a backpack. Thanks to information gathered through the many travel blogs I follow, I knew straight away that I wanted to travel light. I am a fairly small person and had no desire to be dragging around 30+ lbs Continue reading My new best friend: my backpack→