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I keep thinking about how I should post and somehow the topic that has floated up is...packing for trips??
For a bit I've been researching luggage and thinking about what I like about my set up and all that. I'm incapable of making large purchases without first wildly over-researching them and quadruple guessing if I need it and wavering between options, and then once I've decided, waiting like a spider for a deal on what I want, so I've accrued Thoughts on This Topic. Most of my trips are around 1 week to 2 weeks; previously I would mostly do urban cities with public transit, I visit family for several weeks sometimes, but now I also do a lot of birding-specific trips. I do sometimes do smaller trips, like a night or two. The frustration of using my stupid backpack, which I believe is something like 20ish litres in volume (North Face Vault for women) and is annoyingly small, droves me nuts. I have a roller bag for the longer trips, which is great, but it was nearly impossible to pack a weekend trip in the backpack, which is just absurd. I don't pack that much! It's just incredibly inefficient and tiny and I swear the instant you put a laptop in the sleeve - which I don't even travel with generally!! - the whole thing shrinks to about 5L of packing volume and feels super uncomfortable. Why did I buy this backpack? It was 2020 and I needed a backpack and couldn't try one on and it wasn't too crazy expensive, but I hate it. It is so uncomfortable to carry, even though it's not that big and not very heavy, because I just ordered online.
( many thoughts about luggage )
For a bit I've been researching luggage and thinking about what I like about my set up and all that. I'm incapable of making large purchases without first wildly over-researching them and quadruple guessing if I need it and wavering between options, and then once I've decided, waiting like a spider for a deal on what I want, so I've accrued Thoughts on This Topic. Most of my trips are around 1 week to 2 weeks; previously I would mostly do urban cities with public transit, I visit family for several weeks sometimes, but now I also do a lot of birding-specific trips. I do sometimes do smaller trips, like a night or two. The frustration of using my stupid backpack, which I believe is something like 20ish litres in volume (North Face Vault for women) and is annoyingly small, droves me nuts. I have a roller bag for the longer trips, which is great, but it was nearly impossible to pack a weekend trip in the backpack, which is just absurd. I don't pack that much! It's just incredibly inefficient and tiny and I swear the instant you put a laptop in the sleeve - which I don't even travel with generally!! - the whole thing shrinks to about 5L of packing volume and feels super uncomfortable. Why did I buy this backpack? It was 2020 and I needed a backpack and couldn't try one on and it wasn't too crazy expensive, but I hate it. It is so uncomfortable to carry, even though it's not that big and not very heavy, because I just ordered online.
( many thoughts about luggage )
