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My travel gear list for 2017

February 21, 2017 By James Clark 3 Comments

My travel gear list for 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve done a packing list (my last one was in 2014). I was planning to do another one until I realised my 2017 list is remarkably similar to 2014. Not much has changed in my bags, or the bags themselves. Hell, I might even have the very same underwear in […]

Filed Under: Travel Gear Tagged With: camera, clothing, iphone, kindle paperwhite, laptop, mobile phone

Libertad Apparel: the travel shirt that doesn’t look like a travel shirt

August 26, 2015 By James Clark 11 Comments

Libertad Apparel

I’m always on the lookout for shirts that look good and are practical for travel. The problem I have with most travel clothes is that they usually look like travel clothes. The checklist of travel-shirt cliches include: – variation of green/beige/khaki (army/explorer colours) – ugly fabric – zips and multiple panels – a big logo […]

Filed Under: Travel Gear Tagged With: clothing

Packing List – My travel life in two bags

September 9, 2014 By James Clark 26 Comments

James - Two Bags

Whenever I’m about to leave a place I’ve been for a while I like to take stock of my gear and assess what I need and discard what I don’t. I’ve never documented a packing list so when a friend posted what’s in his bags I thought I should do my own. I travel with […]

Filed Under: Travel Gear Tagged With: digital nomad, travel bag

Kindle Paperwhite Review – The ultimate travel e-reader

July 25, 2013 By James Clark 4 Comments

Kindle Paperwhite

Continuing with the Travel Gear series, this is my review of the Kindle Paperwhite. My first e-book device was a Kobo, which turned me into an e-reader convert straight away. While I liked the size and weight of the Kobo, I found that there were books that weren’t in the Kobo store that was on […]

Filed Under: Travel Gear Tagged With: kindle paperwhite

A long-term PC users review of the Macbook Air

March 21, 2013 By James Clark 18 Comments

Shopping for Macbooks

So I bought a Mac. I was the last person to think I would switch over, especially as I had been using PC laptops for so long. April 2012 marked ten years since I bought my first laptop, and in that decade I owned four laptops, averaging 2.5 years per laptop (which is roughly the […]

Filed Under: Travel Gear Tagged With: laptop, macbook air

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