I love the idea of light, “one bag” travel and over the past few months, have enjoyed blogs dedicated to carry-on-only travel like 1bag1world and especially onebag.com. I was almost sold on the Red Oxx “Air Boss”, but eventually concluded that a packed-mostly-full Air Boss would just be too heavy to have hanging on one side of my 120-something pound body.
I decided I wanted a large backpack with a waist strap, still within carryon dimensions. The Eagle Creek Rincon Vita 65L fit the bill, especially since it’s designed to best fit women’s dimensions.
It’s two-backpacks-in-one, which is perfect, as I was needing a new backpack for snowboarding as well. (The small one will be perfect for extra gloves, hats, snacks, water, etc.) For the trip, these two bags will be my carry-ons:
Alas, I couldn’t manage with these two bags alone and will be checking my usual carry-on, this basic Samsonite roll-aboard I got from Marshalls or TJ Maxx. (Why don’t those stores just merge; they are the friggin same.)
O hi, Asia! 