Travel Gear

Tested and recommended by travel veterans

We know travel gear. Our stories below feature product tips for choosing the best travel luggage or apparel, or for selecting travel security gear and small items we won’t travel without. When we recommend a piece of gear, it is because we have used it, like it, and trust the brand. Although we now focus on broader, more practical category reviews to help you make perfect choices, you still will find some older reviews of individual products on our product recommendations category page.

Looking for the perfect travel gift? Then also check out our travel gift guides page for personally tested travel gear.

The best travel technology: Power banks to portable drives

The best travel technology: Power banks to portable drives

With smartphones, cameras, computers, tablets and more, travel technology threatens to add weight and bulk to any travel bag. Our travel technology guide will show you what we use and why with buying recommendations for compact and light power banks, battery chargers, travel adapters and portable drives.

Flying in comfort: What to pack and wear

Flying in comfort: What to pack and wear

Your ticket is booked, your seat is selected, and you’re packing your bags for upcoming travels. But will you be flying in comfort? And we’re not talking getting an upgrade to premium class. Here are a few things we do and pack to help make flying and arriving more comfortable no matter what class you are flying.

Travel Packs: A perfect choice for adventure travel

Travel Packs: A perfect choice for adventure travel

If you are off to New Zealand, the Ardennes Mountains or South America and you’re going to be gone for a while hopping on and off planes, trains, automobiles, donkeys and boats, chances are you might want to look at buying into the category of travel packs, rather than schlepping wheeled luggage or a duffel with straps.

Travel fitness advice: Packing, clothes and gear

Travel fitness advice: Packing, clothes and gear

What you pack along will have a huge impact on whether you workout or how comfortable you are when you do. A friend of mine used to always have a just-in-case workout bag in his trunk “just in case a workout broke out,” he’d say. And that’s our travel fitness advice too. If you aren’t prepared, you won’t get your healthy fix in.

Don't Get Left Behind!

Enjoy more of our stories and photos by joining our Subscriber Club. It's FREE and by subscribing to our monthly newsletter you'll also get access to free downloads of e-books, recipes and more - no spam, ever, promise.