Why I Travel Light (and you should too)

I made a video a few weeks back covering how to travel light and how I fit everything for all of my trips into a single backpack one of the comments on that video was asking if it's worth all of the inconveniences and trade-offs of one bag travel compared to just checking a bag for your next trip spawned a new video idea for me so today I'm going to be covering all of the benefits of one bag travel and traveling lighter first and foremost when you're planning and preparing for your trip packing

a single backpack is so much easier and less stressful than planning out a whole big checked bag or multiple bags when you're just packing a single bag you inevitably have less items to worry about and stress about and think about and it just allows you to have a little bit of a less stressful experience leading into your trip I've found that this brings all of the fun aspects of preparing for a trip without all of the unnecessary stress this next one is definitely my favorite in addition to the

easier packing process before your trip it's also much nicer and simpler to travel and navigate through the airport whether it's going through security or looking around for maybe some food to eat before your flight or just exploring and killing some time while you wait for boarding it's way nicer to be in the airport with a single backpack you don't need to worry about rolling anything around or lugging stuff around everything is on your back way simpler way easier while we're on the topic of

airports and air travel another huge benefit to just having a backpack it allows you to bring all of your luggage and all of your items with you on your person for the flights you no longer risk damaging anything that you're bringing with you on a trip and then you also don't need to worry about your items getting lost if anyone has had trouble with that in the past I haven't personally but I know a few family members that have it is no easy task to recover or get money credited back to you for

lost items you don't need to worry about it if you just have a backpack you can keep it with you in your seat it's also a lot less expensive to travel with a single bag obviously you're going to save money by not owning and buying multiple pieces of luggage but you're also going to save a ton of money on baggage fees for air travel or even train travel you can use those cost savings towards a better travel bag towards money for your trip or just keeping in your savings account or we can invest i

n higher quality travel items because you don't need to buy as many of them it's also going to be a lot easier for you store your luggage in between trips I don't know about you but I live in a relatively small City apartment and those big checked bags take up a ton of space in my apartment closets this way I have a single backpack nice and easy to store compact in the back of your closet I'm obviously in a bit of a different situation here because a review bags I have quite a few but for any no

rmal folks out there you just really need the one traveling and living out of a backpack even on the short term is also a really great way to kind of practice and experience minimalism in a smaller form it's always been a good way for me to kind of recalibrate my needs and my day-to-day regular life when I'm not traveling it's always a great feeling for me when I go through a trip and I've just been out of my backpack and I get home and I feel like I didn't really miss much that I didn't bring w

ith me it's a good reminder to appreciate and be grateful for the items I have and to realize some of the items that I might want I don't really need traveling out of a backpack is also going to be a lot more environmentally friendly and obviously I know skipping travel all together is going to be the best thing for the environment but I think there's always a balance that can be struck here so this is a great way to lessen the load on airplanes or cars or train travel these is a little bit less

energy consumption compared to big bags another one of my favorite things is just the adaptability and flexibility of traveling out of a backpack you know if you have lots of big check bags and luggage you know say you go through a common scenario of needing the check out of an air B&B or hotel at 11:00 a.m. let's say but your flight doesn't leave till 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. you have to deal with all of your stuff in between that time if you're traveling out of a backpack you get the convenience of

just being able to bring everything with you it makes the experience a lot more smooth it allows you to be flexible and adaptable and change your plans and really just embrace what you want to do on your trip and that really brings it back to the core of why I love one bag traveling it just allows you to travel and move a lot more unencumbered it's very similar to minimalism on a micro scale less stuff is generally going to be less stress for your trip I'm also really happy to announce it in thi

s video my partnership with pact they're actually the ones that make the pact one in the packed backpack here we're teaming up to make some content on my channel here and I'm actually going to be writing for their website as well so I would like to thank them as kind of my first official channel sponsor here if you are interested I have a full review of the packed backpack on my youtube channel here they're actually going to be shipping these pretty soon they're still in the pre-order status on

IndieGoGo I'll be sure to put a link but they're a really great company a little bit more focused on the environmental aspects of creating luggage and traveling which I absolutely love and they just make really great product so check them out and be sure to look at their website soon and I'm gonna be writing some blog posts for them and if you do want to see how to pack lighter like I said I made that video a few weeks back I'll be sure to link that along with the review for the pack backpack bu

t thank you all so much for watching leave me a comment down below do you travel with more I know in some scenarios you're going to need to bring more bags but I generally maintain my backpack at all costs thank you all for watching and I'll talk to the next one