The 5 most overrated products for backpacking

backpacks in pickup truck

Let me tell you what not to pack when going on a backpacking trip. Packing your backpack for a trip is different for everybody. Some take weeks to plan and use lists to make sure they don’t forget anything. Others, like me, start the evening before. We all have one thing in common though: we over pack. Heavily too. To make matters worse, there are some travel items that everybody seems to be recommending while they are really not that great. Or even useful. You pack them, drag them around your whole trip and unpack them back home. Never really used them at all. So in a probably futile attempt to rid the world of these overrated and useless travel products, and to give myself a nice opportunity for a rant, here are the 5 most overrated travel items for backpacking.

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backpack, duffelbag or suitcase, which carry-on luggage to choose?

Whenever I go on a city trip that involves a flight I commit myself to only take hand-luggage. It saves time at the airport, fees on your flight and as an added bonus it is just easier to get around. It also just feels damn good to be able to get off your flight, walk past the luggage belts and sarcastically smile at the passengers waiting for their overloaded trunks to arrive, while you head straight onto the airport transit.

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