Every product I recommend, sorted into lists you can actually shop. Each one tells you what the thing is and why it is in my bag.
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What to wear
20 items
Travel Clothing Essentials
The clothes that survive the carry-on cut: packable, washable, hard to wrinkle.
40 items
Summer Travel Clothing Essentials for Women
The warm-weather wardrobe and the gear that keeps it cool, from wrinkle-proof dresses to fans and a dry bag.
17 items
Fall Travel Clothing Essentials for Women
Shoulder-season layers that fit a carry-on: sweaters, a packable dress, jeans and the pashmina.
15 items
Matt’s Travel Wardrobe for Men
What Matt actually packs: quick dry, wrinkle free, and one dress shirt for the fancy nights.
6 items
Travel Shoes We Wear
Three pairs each: something to walk in, something nicer, something for the water.
6 items
Travel Laundry Kit
How two weeks fits in a carry-on: sink detergent, a clothesline, and a smell-proof bag.
Bags and gear
13 items
Luggage and Bags We Use
Nearly a decade of full-time travel, carry-on only. These bags survived it.
25 items
Packing Essentials
The system that fits two weeks in a carry-on: compression cubes, organizers, and the small clever stuff.
20 items
Travel Tech We Carry
The electronics that earn their weight: power, sound, trackers and the Kindle.
Getting there
32 items
Lisa’s Flight Comfort Kit
Everything that lives in my personal item on a flight, from the Osprey backpack to earplugs, layers, fans and chargers.
15 items
Travel Sleep Kit
Everything that gets me asleep on a plane, a train, or in a hotel with paper walls.
18 items
High Protein Travel Snacks
The difference between landing hungry and landing hangry, from protein chips to the big jar of nuts.
Once you’re there
18 items
Travel Toiletries
Eighteen small things that earn their space in a carry-on, from shampoo bars and toothpaste tablets to wipes and a sunscreen stick.
11 items
Travel Safety Essentials
The safety gear that actually comes with us, for your body, your room, and your bags.
16 items
Make Any Rental Feel Like Home
Sixteen small things that turn an Airbnb or hotel room into somewhere you want to be.
Shopping from outside the US
Use the lists rather than the storefront link. Amazon redirects the individual product links to your own store automatically in nine other countries, and you will get the same item or the closest match. The storefront link does not redirect, so it lands you on a US page you cannot buy from. Australia is not on that list yet, which is a real gap and one I cannot fix from here.
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