Tag Archive: Packing

8 Lightweight Alternatives To Keep Your Luggage To A Minimum

Image by David Clarke
During the first year of our location independent life, we spent around $500 sending various boxes of our stuff back “home” to put in storage. Yup, we weren’t exactly travelling light in those days.
During our 2nd year we got our act together and typically travelled with less than 30kg between the two [...]

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Putting Together A Portable Office That You Can Take With You Anywhere You Go In The World

Photo by Premshree Pillai
Ideally running your business on the road as a web worker requires nothing more than your laptop and the common online/software tools beloved of modern digital nomads.
Sometimes however, you really notice the fact that you don’t have your own customised little workspace to work from which houses everything from your dusty collection [...]

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Travelling Light: How To Travel For 3 Months With Less Than 30kg Between Two People

Photo by Naomi Ibuki
One of the recurring themes in the comments around here is the fact that so many of you are struggling to decide which books to take and which books to leave.
My advice? Don’t do what I did the first time round and lug a hulking great business/marketing manual around (all 2kg of [...]

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Packing Hand Luggage

As a  bit of a weakling, I like my carry on luggage to be pretty light when I travel, even if J does often carry it for me. Here is what I take in my hand luggage and why…
1) My Sony VAIO SZ4XWN/C laptop in a ZSHOCK hard case with charger to fill up any [...]

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Packing For A 3 Month LIP Trip

Only 14.5 hours until our taxi comes to pick us up & whisk us away on the next stage of our LIP adventure. With the prospect of a 4-day fun & food-filled trip to NYC and then 3 glorious, sun-baked months in Grenada, here’s what we’re taking & how we’ve packed…
His & Hers Clothes

With the [...]

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