18 Carry-on Travel Backpacks 2021

hey friends i want to show you a bunch of carry-on travel backpacks everything on this bag sexy bag external access is against your back nomadic's travel backpack tick pockets peak design in milan okay probably my current for montenegro the air travel pack first of all menaul because i was traveling i love this company okay special features these are big backpacks normally maximum carry-on size at the end i'm going to get into some that are a little bit smaller so that you can travel in places like southeast asia or places like australia where there's way more restrictions on your weight or your size but north america central america south america lots of europe and stuff like that you get this like 35 to 40 liter sort of size the first ones i want to start with are what i'm calling the sexy backpacks but the very first one i've got to share is this one this is the only one of all the ones i'll be showing you that i helped design this is the packed travel backpack all right it's made from recycled water bottles like i said i helped design it these guys got in touch with me after i reviewed their duffel bag an amazing duffel bag and this is an amazing backpack it opens up and you have two main compartments here okay so your main compartment is segmented into two spaces i normally put like clothes over here and i can put them without packing cubes because this keeps it nice and uh keeps it nice and tight got to keep it tight and over here this is where your laptop goes right here okay in the middle suspended between your clothing normally soft goods things like that which is killer and then you've got the other segment over here so this double sided thing is really what makes this bag so unique besides the fact that it's also got all of the external access now there's a handful of things we're going to be talking about when we're talking about travel bags external access can i stash things where i need them so i can get them while i'm in transit okay comfort is there a frame of some kind so that the hip straps can help me to you know actually distribute that weight on to my hips that's what we've got in this one nice straps luggage pass through there are so many features on this bag this these hip straps they come out and it's a sling right back here is a secret compartment with a secret compartment inside this is actually designed to be your tsa pocket so everything in your pockets as you're going through tsa goes right into here zip that up so you have to worry about it losing it and as it goes through the belt it gets to the other side you can see clearly where all your stuff is that you need to just grab and throw back in your pocket thanks pact on the top of the bag you'll see three zippers okay the middle one is what expands the bag into its two compartments the front one goes into a waterproof pocket so anything that you have that you might you're afraid might explode right here you don't have to worry about it spilling onto anything in your bag i use this just as my my quick access pocket i love it because it's big i can fit my bluetooth headphones air pods like my phone when i want it out of my pocket all the little things bars and snacks and things that i that i need in transit and then this back one gets you actually into that compartment in the back of the bag great handles ever we we worked so hard on this thing so i had to start with this and you need to know that i'm compromised about this one i think it's one of the most stylish bags out here i think it's uh that's why i'm including it in the sexy bag category but i've got a bunch of other sexy bags okay just wanted to start with this one because got a shout out to pact because they got me involved in designing it how cool is that hey by the way i have videos on basically all of these bags okay so if you want to go deeper just check out the link in the description to go deeper another one in the sexy bag category now this maybe is not as sexy like it's just a little bit like uh it's a little bit sexy it's a little bit like tie me up it's a little bit like it gets kind of sweaty looking you know what i mean this is from gravel they also have a frame in the back so it's nice and comfortable comfort is another thing that we're talking about when we're talking about travel bags this one also has a hip strap that clicks on here and can become a sling kind of a weird looking sling but it has worked really well you can check out my video on this one for more details on that luggage pass through solid big beefy straps the whole thing's kind of water resistant with the packed we have a big condom that you pull over because nothing's more effective than that when you're really in a deluge these have this one has water resistant zips and a water resistant material so you're pretty well taken care of a simple little pocket out here just goes about that far an admin pocket sort of up top which this is designed for one of their toiletry kits gravel make epic toiletry kits this pocket goes all the way down so you'd want some sort of like bigger tech pouch or something in there you've got a water bottle pocket on the side and then you open up these zippers and you just got one big container that you're able to segment using these like almost like camera dividers in here so if you want just a one big space for all your stuff recommend putting uh packing cubes using things like packing cubes in there little meshy pockets up here a fairly simple bag but they did a good job with all the essentials there's also a quick little quick access pocket right here that is that is just so it's really tight it's kind of hard to use not the not you could slide your phone in if you're just putting your phone or air pods right there maybe you can fold up your boarding pass and throw it right in there big old back pocket here with your laptop and this is just a zipper to get like back into the frame stuff like that some tech pouch business paper kind of vibes right here i have a slight worry about the fact that that is on the back panel of this bag so all of your pressure as you're carrying this is pulling on that zipper it's a good ykk zipper but still you know i just kind of a little bit worried about that over time i think they did a great job with this one from gravel now i've got four more in the sexy category this is the air travel pack this is one of the sort of highest recommended travel packs it looks slightly smaller you have slightly less capacity than the two bags we were just looking at this is a special x-pack version that's why the orange inside of here this is for your quick access this is for a shoe compartment on the bottom of the bag which is helpful to keep your gear sort of segmented if you want or you can kind of just shove it away if you don't want it a couple meshes inside of here solid water bottle pocket uh ultimately a very like it's like a set again sexy it looks good it's nice all black this is like i said the x-pack version but the ballistic nylon one is great too these compression straps get a little bit frustrating for me over time but they can compress your bag a bit nice big chunky handles quick access pocket right on the top laptop pocket back here in the back flat pocket on the front bottom face and then a big admin pocket here where you could throw all sorts of things like your business papers and i don't know computer chargers solid piece in the back here but it's still got it's not a frame you have some bowing and things like that and you got some hip straps that you can connect if you want but this is like uh i put this at like 35 liters it's not as big as some of the others maybe but i do include it up front because it is one of the more popular travel bags out there and a very solid option for any of you just like all black built really strong uh can can take whatever you throw at it air the peak design travel bag all right people love this bag and for good reason it is really sexy okay it's a video it's it is probably the president of the sexy of the sexy bag club get into your main compartment here on the back they're using zoom zippers a big water sealed number 10 you got a laptop compartment over here and then your capacity right lots of capacity with a couple meshy pockets right in here now with this one you have the ability to access this main compartment on either side of the bag through these wings okay you can connect some camera accessories that that can be very useful for for some of you while we're on the back of the bag you've got these magnetic flaps back here that your straps and hip straps just come right out of i love this feature personally it's nice to be able to just kind of hide your stuff away when the bag's not in use or when you're in like car mode or something like that g-hooks for the hip straps now some people complain about these straps that they're not padded enough or thick enough or fat enough or something because if you do load this out with a big load you're gonna feel that you will you're gonna feel that so i would say athletic frames are going to be totally fine with this that's that's kind of like what my what my language is on it if that's something you're really sensitive to whether or not you're athletic this is not the most comfortable harness system that you'll see here then on the front you've got a quick access pocket right here has a nice little stretchy meshy sort of uh panties feeling inside small though like just probably just enough room for my for my phone so probably wouldn't put my phone there probably just throw keys in like a bar or something then you have this whole front panel here that opens up okay and you've got meshes up here meshes over here which are actually the the meshes that you saw on the inside of the main compartment which is nice and then you have these other small kind of hidden zipper pulls which one of my zipper pulls came off but it expands this section okay so you can get another little beefiness right here expand it out to 45 liters i think com complete with both the main compartment and this expanded you've got it big there is a feature that this does where it snaps like there's a button here that like snaps together and now you've got like a smaller daily carry kind of bag it's an interesting idea but in practice it's still a massive bag it's not at all like i would want to have a packed-in daily carry bag sort of packed away in here so i don't think that's a selling feature for me so to speak if i was carrying a daily carry i would just probably end up carrying it like this like it doesn't save me much space your mileage may vary on that peak designs travel bag very very capable nomadic's travel backpack taking i think some some insight from peak design but doing things their own way big old chunky water sealed zip that's kind of hard to move around and stuff i've got some hip straps here that are removable but big capacity here you can see this is my quick access pouch right here on this we also have this expandability going on where you can expand it out to get a little bit more capacity in that space this is much more functional to me than the peak design one because it's expanding my main capacity instead of a secondary compartment you've got a small vertical pocket right here zips up right there that's like uh maybe maybe a c whatever you put in here is going to all fall down to the bottom right this whole bag has a little bit of padding around the outside like a little bit of of structure built in i'd say it's just slightly heavier than the peak design just a little bit just a little bit heavier by the way this peak design also has my some of my favorite water bottle compartments in the whole world one on either side here we've got a water bottle pocket on the side that you can zip closed it's like it's okay it's a satisfactory bigger water bottles would not fit in here very easily same thing on this side okay so you can use this as a pocket or a water bottle pocket because you got the zip and a little bit of meshi in the back here so whatever you put in here is going to be kept in there laptop compartment on the back which is nice can access it from the outside whereas the peak you have to like zip all the way around open it up maybe you could zip just the top and pull that out there then you have this big admin panel here all right where it's just gusseted so you can throw some stuff here and it's never it's not gonna fall out when you when you zip this open you've got some nice an rfid pocket here another little meshy kind of guy here a bunch of these uh elastic guys over here so where do you put your bluetooth headphones in this thing maybe in this front pocket right here back panel straps are really nice comfortable perfect wide a little bit of contour to them you got the load adjuster straps up here a little bit of air channel luggage pass through and then here's where you can put the optional hip straps ultimately a really really capable backpack this one more of a shell more of a padded protective shell but the size and shape of it it's easy to move around just like the peak design bag right so nomadic kind of crushed it by the way links below on all of these bags time code links so if you are getting something please use my link because at no cost to you in fact sometimes you might even have a discount applied when when i can with each of these thanks all right the last of the sexy bags the boundary supply eris very sexy crinkly you hear that but extremely weather resistant extremely weather resistant great harness system got a nice little like you can see almost like some carbon fiber type stuff back here really really padded and cushy maybe maybe a little too much like is that a thing can you have can you have too much cushy they use these big chunky guys here you see this this is like you can put that like up and out of the way when you don't when you don't want it we've got a big water bottle pocket here this pocket here in the front is flat and goes down in kind of to to there ish inside of here it's kind of like a silicone rubbery feeling so whatever you put in here is a little sticky on the way out not like literally sticky residue but just like can kind of stick to the edges then you have a zipper on the top which goes into a medium sized pocket okay so big enough for a pair of like two high-top sneakers could probably fit in here you wouldn't want to because it's just one little slip that you're putting that stuff in this is bluetooth speakers phone maybe a tech a tech pouch like anything that you need right here you want to be able to go in blind so you can feel around you can tell what's what you don't want a jumble of crap in here probably a pouch in here with smaller things and then like bluetooth headphones stuff like that then you've got this zipper on the side opposite of the water bottle this goes into the main compartment so anytime you need to get quick access to something you can do it there then zipper on the back and laptop on this side main compartment over here you can see this zippered up and rolled tucked away guys so you could put all your stuff in here zip it up right so it doesn't fall out when you open this up to get your laptop or something like that here's that medium sized pocket give you a sense of the uh of the size by the way inside that one there is a little zippered guy it's in like a couple it's not a great it's not it's not a lot of visibility but i do love that size of pocket and most of these bags don't have that size of pocket similar to on the packed that top front the waterproof pocket up there so you can see in here taped seams really really weather resistant really scratch and abrasion resistant material out here nice pretty lightweight good uh laptop compartment lots of protection some nipple clips you can attach an accessory or two up here soft sided on the bottom so when you're packing it it might collapse a little bit you pull that up and then zip that top around it really capable bag here great handle on the top boundary supply famously like late on delivering product i always hear people going like man i'm still waiting six months for my arc light sling or whatever so you know put that in you take it all with a grain of salt so that's the end of the sexy bags the glasses come off these are the bags that get you from point a to point b just simple put it on your back carry it where you're going the topo travel bag okay 45 liters is also available in a 35 liter i love the aesthetic on this thing little zipper up front vertical for a little stash pocket got a couple little pockets inside there huge ykk number 10 zips admin panel up front you can see a few little pouches and a zippered guy for some business papers you can also see this red bit right here that's for like slipping your zippers through a little bit of a little bit of security which is kind of nice though it's typically more of a hassle than you'd care to use especially at least on that pocket maybe on the big pocket you're more likely to do that here's that big pocket boom huge meshes up here then this guy is your main compartment here about four inches i'd say of depth inside of there and on this side as well you've got a zippered compartment to put in maybe slide in some business shirts man simple heavy duty cordura materials the back panel nothing much special you've got hip straps that you can hide away no real mesh back here so it can get kind of sweaty and you also have no real rig rigid frame at all though your laptop in this laptop compartment back here would be helpful for a little bit of setting up the frame ultimately some of you especially if you're wearing like op corduroy shorts that go up like above the knee like maybe mid thigh if you have a mustache something like that if you have a coors like original in your hand right now you're looking at this going like well i know what travel bag i'm going to get i got a killer like 70s mountain aesthetic great work toppo the tortuga set out 45 liter massive bag really really like robust straps you can put on some hip straps right here not the most you know not the most rigid back panel here you know i think they could go a little further that way which would make the hip straps work a lot better but this like swiss cheese beefy it feels quite comfortable i have used this bag often in my life over the years massive capacity simple pocket right here then admin pocket right here throw in your ipad or something a little bit of you know a little bit of space that goes all the way down big old water bottle pocket with a nice meshy meshy feel to it then your main compartment which you don't have to undo any compression straps to get into and it's just like what hi got a lot of space here okay lots of flights in the world this is not carry-on compatible but like i said the us a lot of like north south central america this is probably fine meshy pockets on this side big ol soft shell bag neoprene handle on the top and one of the sides very capable very comfortable bag really big tortuga set out link below the nomadic travel duffel okay this is surprisingly capable bag it's a duffel bag so what's it doing here well it has shoulder straps that ended up working whenever i've used it working pretty damn good they have this like funky like choose shoulder straps or handle thing ends up working okay and then hip straps now this is what made this so good your laptop ends up being right here you pack this bag out full of stuff and it has it like it ends up having like a decent strength for putting all of that right on your back you don't have any support from sweat so you're going to get sweaty you got to kind of get these straps out of the way to get into the bag then you've got zips like i said here's your laptop compartment little tablet spot the rest of this is just like fill it up with stuff fill it up i mean look how deep this goes right here this is like eight or ten inches of of stuff now the thing about this guy is there are compartments all over this bag that part of me just wishes weren't really there look at this this is like you have a water bottle pocket right here that's just a slit hard to get your water bottle in and out of but a waterproof-ish compartment right here and underneath that is like kind of a shoe compartment but if you have anything in this compartment it really ends up taking a bunch of space in there water sealed zips on all this stuff which are kind of a kind of a hassle quick access pocket with a little bit of velour here lips can be kind of frustrating over time but look at this this is a big old admin pocket you see this thing just tons of little organizing space little rfid spot kind of like little homeopathic remedies we left in there my wife really liked traveling with this bag when she used it it was never like a personal favorite of mine but whenever i was going through customs and needed to carry her bag for example i would throw this on my back and i'd be really surprised how comfortable it was it wasn't supposed to be comfortable it's like a big boxy duffel made out of hypalon good handles so ultimately a very capable travel bag from nomadic okay probably my current favorite ish in this category except for the fact that it's kind it's quite heavy so if you're flying places where they're going to be weighing your baggage this is not where you want to look right big compression straps that like you've got to take off in order to wow it takes a lot of pressure to do in order to open this thing up huge ykk number 10 lovely this is from goruck goruck just make lovely stuff here's the uh belt thing the hip pack thing that i don't have there right now all this is velcro just huge compartment huge i love this category of just filling up a big box full of your stuff just pump it full of whatever you need and carry it on your back one of the reasons why i love this thing so much i like these straps i've always liked goruck straps they feel great they're beefy and like heavy duty this whole thing is heavy duty in order to get to the laptop compartment you got to do a turn back like that of one of these guys and then pull this guy down you've got a really protected laptop compartment pulled up off the bottom of the bag nice rigidity nice stiff rigidity on this back panel it's just soft goods you know it's just some cordura got some meshy pockets here here and then another one up here that's not see-through extremely simple padded bottom of the bag molly all around if you want to put some straps the bummer is this is your one external access pocket and it is worthless in my opinion my apologies go ruck but these like on their gr1 one of my favorite bags all the time whatever you put in here goes all the way down to the bottom one thing you could do is you could put like a longer thinner pouch straight in there and then just zip it up like halfway so you're close to like ramp just get in and pull that out but where you like you don't have a place to stash your phone you you could arguably do that inside of here because this zipper is so close to the top you can maybe leave that open zip this guy up to at the top and then when you need to get in just unzip there and you've got access right to that the truth is i love the simplicity of this bag i love the bomb proof durability of it i just i'm i'm a goruck fan i really am i mean i'm not running around with weights in my bag on beaches carrying you know dead logs into the ocean with a handful of other brothers but uh i don't know give it a week maybe i will be part of me on this one would love the ability to stow away my straps completely so it's just in like car carry mode that would be awesome dispatch's travel bag all right dispatch is killer american made this is their hip straps which you can connect here kind of when you don't want the hip strap they connect down here extremely comfortable back panel i don't know why these straps i love these straps different completely than the goruck strap but the kind of thing that similar to the go rug whenever i put it on i've just been like oh thank you nice big mesh back here and underneath the strap you've got two side pockets here that neither of which are very good at being water bottle pockets but they're close enough you can see this gusset out here that like bumps out you can fit some stuff in there but this is not gusseted so this is your you can also use these things as pockets though maybe this one's bars and this one you just fill up with m m's then you've got a quick access right here goes down decent size plenty of room for my phone air pods my boarding pass maybe a bar on the back here you've got laptop compartment goes all the way down except for the fact that it's raised up off the bottom of the bag wonderfully so really nice protection you got some stiff enough just stiff enough panel in the back here again that stiffness you really notice when you put on the hip straps if that's stiff enough and this thing has enough rigidity all of that weight gets distributed to your hips your you can loosen up the shoulder straps and just use them as kind of guiding put a sternum strap on here and that just kind of gather them in the beginning front you know have you ever carried a backpack before big beefy handle by the way on this thing like classic old-school buttons and like a wrap it feels kind of nice i do like this bag big old zippers open them up what do you get this huge beaver paddle okay we got a meshi right here which is your quick access from the outside so you can get to whatever's there on the inside as well as the outside you also have this meshy sort of zipper down the middle then you got a little elastic guy down here and a bunch of space a bunch of space now you can see this flap in here that is to a shoe compartment down at the bottom so it has one segmented compartment that you can use dirty clothes or whatever put whatever you want down there or don't use it at all and that pouch just you know collapses against the bottom of the bag great capacity some meshes on the inside here excellent materials usa built i really like this bag honestly it's a it's a great one for gear hauling simplicity it's like not the lightest out there i've been some people who are traveling in australia they're getting worked they're like you have to it's like seven kilograms or something like that that you can carry uh so you know bags like this are just a no-go there's like you you put in put in a few pairs of shoes and this things that that at that weight you know not just this one just about everything you've seen so far right mystery ranch rover kind of a moofy boofy kind of kind of bag no no mesh back here nice straps i like the straps but no hip straps i love this company i love these materials i really like this design let's see it splits halfway like the packed bag except for this side is not the same dimensions as this over here is your main compartment and you can see we've got this nice mesh door all the materials on this bag just feel a little bit better than you're used to usa built in here is the is like a little spot you can maybe put some folded shirts in there and then in here you've got maybe like four inches of dimension and it's tall it's like a long long bag so men are longer than others right and then on this side you've got same door but you can see up here we've got like maybe an inch and a half two inches of dimension here at the top here is a pooch that you can just kind of hide away and you've got you can see again that that like sort of a frame much wider down here than up here this pooch is for a pocket out here on the front of the bag you can see there sort of like a shoe slash dirty clothes compartment kind of space whatever you want to compartmentalize or don't use it at all and hide it away here on the front you've got a sort of a nice like kind of admin quick access throw your phone there's a few little bits of organization slash pen holder things there and then this top corner this is your laptop compartment okay you've got a little velcro guy that goes down there perfect spot for putting you know your business papers look at the little spot for tablet this goes all the way down to this the seam right there really great materials mystery ranch hand making stuff in montana i think the mystery ranch rover not my favorite because it's a little moofy i would honestly prefer to carry this as an over-the-shoulder bag i'd have a daily carry bag and then using this as my as my duffel almost you know because it's so big such a big bag this over the patagonia mlc for example this just feels like a better bag mystery ranch links below okay the last one in our big beefers is the tom bin aeronaut all right now this one does not have a laptop compartment it has straps that can be stowed away it's got some padding in the back but it's still quite it's just pliable again can be super moofy the thing i'm including it because it's basically a huge duffel bag with three compartments now these zips are always kind of a little rough to move because they have a water seal on the inside not on the outside so you've got this main compartment and then these zips here on the outside can be their own compartments okay they can also be unzipped and totally collapsed away so you just have one big compartment however you can see we got a little meshy up here on the top the the bag does not have any quick access right so you're going to be using one of these as you're probably the one on the top right little handles here probably this one on the top as like you know throw in your phone your air pods your bluetooth headphones your boarding pass whatever what have you right so one of these sides is going to be your quick access that's just how this thing works in transit it's basically a big duffel bag comes in this size 45 liter or a smaller size also comes in this their uh massive 1680d ballistic nylon or a uh what do they call it like a halcyon that's what this liner is inside here much lighter weight less less dense kind of material still supposed to be pretty durable finally on either side you do have these zippered pockets right here which are very unuseful you could probably get some little pouches that you throw in there or something but it's just thin and narrow and there's not a lot there's not a lot that fits in there you could you could throw a water bottle in there probably but i include it here because it's an epic gear hauler it's just an epic like throw everything on your back it's nice to have the compartmentalization everyone in my family had one of these for a while and this is what we traveled with and and it was it just worked awesome tom bin okay these guys are sort of the special special features i'll call them some of them are a little bit a little bit slightly smaller and some of them just have some funky features that you should know about because they might be perfect for the kind of thing you're looking for first of all menaul okay this i have this was one of the bags that started it all for me 35 liters a little tighter than you might like perfect for that australian kind of travel because it's a little bit on the lighter side but it's also doesn't have as much capacity so it forces you to fit it all in actually it forces you not to bring it little quick access right here it doesn't force you not to bring it it like forces you to be more selective and then a secondary quick access here this is the more updated version and they've got an awesome liner inside this stuff god i just love it little water bottle here on this side you got some compression straps by the way before i forget there's a little zipper on the bottom and you've got a a rain fly that you can cover the whole bag with when it's deluge time okay they make their own packing cubes you've got some pockets in here with some built-in about a about an inch of built-in dimension so you can pack right into this bag which is quite unique then you know the whole trick with this bag was putting it like this and packing it like this then closing it up because it's just a soft shelled bag it can feel a little moofy getting around it can sometimes feel awkward but once you've got it on your back it feels great because it is a little more narrow a little a little more sleek in transit you don't have a bunch of stuff dangling off of your bag then you got to see this tech compartment it's just it's by the way the straps all hide away the straps are solid they're just they're great great straps this whole thing flips up underneath here but just nice like edgeless straps that looks like they they uh they upgraded these similar to what tom bin's new straps look like really great solid just minimal branding on the back you do have like a passport pocket on the back when you've got the straps out and it is nice that you can fold this all up like this and hold it by like there's a handle right here right so you're just kind of like carrying it around and it's like a like a loose briefcase but this tack pocket is killer okay laptop tablet these are customizable so whatever size you need it's all pulled up off the bottom of the bag you've got a big like this weird clip thing right here for your business papers a little narrow little pen like thing right here totally unusable in my book unless you're just carrying like two pens or something i wish this was a little more like where do i put my uh power adapter or something like that but here's the deal this bag is one of the sleekest of all time ever to travel with a lot of professional travelers traveling with this thing it's a little bit smaller than it needs to be for a lot of carry-on flights which some people dislike you could bring more with a bigger bag and in that bigger bag fit a packable bag by the way link below to packable bags that i love that you can just shove right inside of any of these bags because they take up almost no space then when you get there you have a functional daily carry bag this is like just a little too big it's just like it's just it's like as a daily carry bag you go to the cafe your stuff kind of moves out this up here is where you put your you have a lot of a lot of like your your basically your charger your camera your phone your whatever you've got that you're bringing around and so when you don't have a lot in here that kind of like weighs it down a little bit you know so not a great daily carry bag but an epic bag for transit like when you're in transit and this is all you have you feel like a million bucks because you're watching all these other people with their rollers and they're like multiple bags and all this and you're just like with your headphones on maybe a half a gummy just going travel is amazing it's so incredible that we can get to anywhere in the world we can just go we can explore we can see things this is the bag that started that for me where this minimal one bag travel thing you're free and easy and you're out in the world and all of a sudden you have less drag on your person so that you can really engage with your surroundings and that changes every little thing evergoods makes a huge gear hauling travel bag a little bit beefy for sure and it's weight but nice like like padded protected super durable very capable kind of like wild a wild bag you have on this side you have all of the capacity if you want it and then these straps that you cinch everything down like this is a bag made for throwing all of your climbing gear in like a bunch of rucking out gear hauling kind of stuff beautiful pockets on this side god i love the way that they design stuff at evergoods like i said not the lightest weight bag but lots of capacity big ykk number 10 zip you've got a laptop compartment here which is big enough for any laptop you can you can throw at it and then a quick access up here at the top of your straps nice little taco sized pocket now these straps are not stowable and they're very particular they're a totally unique design that every goods invented that is kind of epic kind epic you know ah you just locked the frick in huge box of things on your back padded protected and minimal in terms of like no scrap and dangle i don't even think they have any hip straps for this so you're just straight up rocking around with these very capable straps extremely capable bag but a lot of people i think this is like too serious for or something there are certain situations where this is just the freaking best and if you vibe with this style a bunch with the idea of this a lot man you are going to absolutely love traveling with this no water bottle pocket so that needs to be inside somewhere or clipped onto the outside or you have another smaller daily carry item with you right for that kind of thing like i said you do have the laptop you have a simple quick access but this is really like between this and for instance the goruck gr3 the really big gray one uh i i i am a bag so i don't have to choose you can choose okay are you security minded this is the riot bag i think it's their x35 i love sarah who designs this stuff great comfortable bag big pocket here right on the lumbar this is kind of your quick access pocket everything on this bag is against your back so no fiddly little pick pockets in milan or montenegro or morocco can get into it nice nice big stretch mesh oh it's really good stretch mesh actually it's a little bit sexy also have a quick access up here at the top okay this guy goes in got a little bit of space right there nice and then your main compartment here fills in all of this stuff you can see this this is your rain fly she makes great rain flies like reflective a little bit maybe beefier and heavier than i need to be but totally bomb proof then once you're in here you can kind of zip this all up i'll link to my review on this here's your laptop compartment a couple meshes on this side by the way you can see here these little clips that you can put your uh your hip straps connect your hip straps to for more comfortable carry it does a kind of conversion down to a smaller form of carry about that size okay so you can look into click check the link below if you're interested in this especially for security-minded people going if you're if you're traveling around a bunch and that's a big worry to you i remember being in florence i mean when i was in milan no madrid uh i had some stuff stolen not out of a bag that i was carrying out of a like a day bag that i just left on the seat at a starbucks while i ordered my coffee the dude who stole it was in a wheelchair the barista helped me chase that person down and find him i think he was causing some trouble there before and so she was like i know who did this but she didn't say it in english because i was traveling okay special features okay this one's from matador this is an extremely lightweight just weird lightweight but very functional bag small straps no hip straps even if you had them you'd have to really make sure you packed this thing with something rigid to try to get them to support you but you've got all of these pockets here on the outside they label them segment six segment five a six liter this is a nine liter this is a 12 liter this is a nine liter this is a six liter these zippers just go into like a loose little compartment inside so this is the one i would use as my daily carry maybe i'd chunk things up like monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday i doubt it though i know myself better than that what i would do with this sucker is i would open this up and i wouldn't use almost any of those things i would zip them away like so because i'll show you where those things are like here's each of those segments segment one segment two segment three so you can like you can fill up the entire bag with that or simply get rid of them completely and use them as like as some stash pockets on the front and not use up much volume because you're using up all of this massive like quite large simple soft shelled bag it does have a space for a laptop but no real padding or protection big enough laptop thing to probably put a you know put your laptop in a protective case of some kind there is a zipper here on the bottom for like a little stash thing maybe they have a rain fly that can go in there but just you need to know about it super lightweight very simple very ruckable you've got handles all over the place and it's made well this nylon feels great the zippers and the zipper pulls feel great matador make great super lightweight like and stuff these backpack straps stow away by the way so it's like i would think about it more as a duffel that happens to have backpack straps and i would think about it more as a duffel that happens to have multi-segment ability basically you're gonna need to choose are you going segments or are you because you don't want to do like one big segment and fill that with like a pair of shoes or boots or something because that's possible and then everything in the main capacity you have to like make sure it's like moved away from that in order to close it right so you kind of go all segments or just use them as like a little place to stash stuff special features okay one of my favorite one of my favorite companies over the last few years for me i'm new to them z packs okay just a couple cool people designing extremely lightweight extremely light he's making gear for for ultra light hiking and i thought this arc 50 it has a frame right rigid rigid frame comfy ass strap so whatever weights in there is going to go directly onto your hips got little pouches on the hips this bag is a roll top made from dyneema which is like the lightest way it's a sail cloth super lightweight super durable super water resistant okay you can fit a bunch of into here okay big stretchy mesh pockets big big water bottle pocket big water bottle pocket okay you don't have much in terms of quick access you just have like anything that's back here you're traveling around inside in like some courtyard in florence or something like that with a million tourists anybody can just reach right into there and grab whatever you have so it's a little worrisome on that front however if you have any like if you're hiking the camino if you're doing some distance if you're going out into nature right if you're doing south america if you're doing some crazy you know machu picchu like lots of actual hiking this you're going to be and you're not hiring a sherpa or something to take it up the mountain for you this is so lightweight and you can just stuff it full of and it's so well built i just had to include it here i i don't know if any of you travel with this thing at some point i want to hear about it badly i really badly want to hear about it because i think that this is quite a capable bag for so lightweight all you australian folks this is the kind of direction you can go for the lightest weight thing throw your daily carry bag right inside if you needed to because it's got plenty of capacity okay zpex that's it that's all what do you think what did i miss i know there's lots of stuff that i missed these are a lot of bags that you can't find at stores none like rei isn't gonna have almost any of these you know so this is my take on what i've collected over time that you need to know about if i've missed something holler in the comments if you have questions holler in the comments you can check out matterfold.comtravel and that's going to be my page of all of these travel bags and any others that i have gathered over time that i think you need to know about okay you can support my work on patreon that's patreon.com chase reeves shout out to my patrons you can 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Published: Wed Jun 30 2021