what's up guys it's alexander travelbum and today we're talking
travel during the pandemic or specifically packing during this pandemic
i'm sure there are other videos out there about this topic but mine will probably be a little
bit different so there are the obvious things that you would want to pack for the pandemic the hand
sanitizer and things like that but this is going to go a little bit in a different direction you
might be looking for this video because you have to travel somewhere and you want to know how to
be safe this video might be a little bit more directed toward people like myself who travel
a lot and have continued to travel a little bit during this time so let's take a look down here
let's get into my travel bag in 2021 i am what you call a constant traveler i am mostly on the road
most of the year so i've made a couple a decent amount of packing videos over the last few years
but this one is going to be different so some of the things that i usually tell you guys to get i'm
gonna show you how i've changed that and i'm not gonna do that now okay so number one typically i
am a backpacker i like the ease of traveling with a backpack typically because you just have it on
your back it doesn't matter what you're walking on if you're running it doesn't matter where you
are if you have a backpack you can carry it you can get where you're going if you don't have a
hustle or hotel to get to a backpack is a good way to go because you can walk around the city
and just have your backpack whereas rolly luggage is not always the best for that but this year is
different as you are well aware of so the first thing we're going to change is from backpack to
rolly luggage and that is because due to the pandemic not many countries are open right now
and so if you are traveling and chances are you're only going to be traveling to one two maybe
three places and you're going to spend more time there i think that this year is the perfect year
for slow travel i'm a big fan of slow travel so you're not just going from place to place to place
to place which i like doing i like seeing a lot of places but slow travel you get to really get into
the culture meet the people really get to know a place feel a little bit like your home and so
2021 is a time of slow travel and so you don't need that backpack so that you can go to 20 or
30 countries in the year you only need your rolly luggage which you'll bring to the airport you'll
bring straight to your hotel or your airbnb your hopefully long-term airbnb and you'll be there
for a month and rolly luggage is just easy when it comes to that kind of travel so i typically travel
with this this is the nomadic i love traveling with my backpacks and if you still want a backpack
this isn't a big deal backpacks are great and i've made other videos with the nomadic which
i've traveled with to many countries over the last couple years but we are switching that out with
some cool rolly luggage so this rolly luggage is from monos that little m there
that is mono's monoz is one of the best luggage brands out there right now as you can see they
have this cool terra cotta color i'm not a huge colors guy the colors that i do like are they
more muted unsaturated more earthy tones so this is almost like a indian clay or something so
when i saw this i really liked it you can see they have all these colors like these
the next thing is a cat you don't want to forget that because if you're staying in one place for
a long time you want a buddy we'll put her in at the end but look how awesome this luggage is and
i'm not here to tell you all about this luggage so we're just going to pack it up as i speak but
if you want to check it out everything i talked about today is down below it's mono's luggage no
manic and all of this cat excluded so since you're traveling slow you're also going to throw out the
travel towel this is something i always tell you guys to get a travel towel because it condenses
and you can bring it to hostels hotels everywhere around with you it gets really small so it doesn't
take up much room and it dries easily and all that these are great for travel but now since
you're going to travel to one country and be there for maybe many months you don't need this you just
get the one at the hotel and then this is an inflatable travel pillow which is great but
you're only taking one flight to where you're going so we are not going to use this anymore
so what are we gonna use first one is obvious masks i like to get some masks like this
sometimes you can get them in the country you're going to and maybe find some really cool ones but
you know i just get like a three pack of masks because supposedly
they get very dirty on your face and from your mouth and so you're not going to want to wear
the same one constantly all the time for months at least bring a few of them and you can wash a
couple in the sink or something while you're wearing the other one i'm not gonna go over
my clothing because that's just gonna depend where you're going
but uh i have some shirts in here some pants in here a couple nicer things in here i do recommend
packing cubes especially for well for rolly luggage as well as backpacks it helps you keep
everything in one spot i would not be able to do this without these packing cubes my clothes would
be falling everywhere so look how nicely these packing cubes go in here if i was just putting
shirts and pants and everything in here it would go everywhere how nicely does that fit in there
okay next it is hard to keep in shape to stay healthy while you're traveling it's not the
easiest thing as you probably know if you're a traveler you can't really go to the gym or at
least it's not easy to do but now in 2021 because you're traveling slower it'll probably be easier
to do something like that it'll be easier to stay healthy to go on runs and that kind of thing so
you're gonna pack some exercise gear some shorts some really thin shorts that you can just condense
and it doesn't take up room in your bag shoes exercise shoes goes along with that so if you
have the time to really look for your shoes and try a bunch on what i look for the main thing you
will never guess for my second or third pair of shoes that i travel with this is what i look for
i look for something that squishes down completely so that it doesn't take up much room in your bag
you can squish this whole thing into almost nothing now it's just the uh soles of the shoe
really the rest is just the rest is just like a material that you can squish it doesn't take up
any space believe it or not that's kind of hard to find if you go to a store and you look at exercise
shoes you'll see that this usually has a lot of support at the back so you can't really press it
down and even this a lot of times has support that you can't press down so that's what i look for
find a decent pair of running shoes that you can compress together and then find a shoe bag that
you can put it in so that it keeps it like this i don't know where my shoe bag is right now next
thing you have here is your toiletry bag i'm not gonna go into that that'll depend on you a jacket
in a packing cube keeps it nice and tight put that in there this is a rain jacket i
also have a rain jacket bag that keeps this all compressed but i don't know where that is so
trying to do this quick guys back on the subject of being healthy and staying in shape
i just got these so if you can't find a gym or probably shouldn't go to a gym right now because
it's probably one of the worst places during covid everybody touching everything all the time
you can get these uh resistance bands so you can see extra heavy heavy light these
are pretty cheap i have some linked below but you can just take this and you know do your
workouts in your hotel room however you want to do them you can do stuff with your legs you know
resistance bands they take no space in your bag so why not have them and stay in shape a little bit
a wallet that's obvious but what about what's in it i have travel credit cards i have an atm
card that is good for withdrawing money with no foreign transaction fees or no atm foreign atm
fees and then i have a credit card that i can use that charges no foreign transaction fees
so you can use the credit card and you won't get any of those fees while you're in other countries
so one is the charles schwab that is the debit card that i use that's awesome see if you can
get that and the other is the uh chase sapphire reserve and that is my go-to card it gives you
travel rewards points when you use your points on travel it's worth a lot more you get airport
lounge access i swear by this card i use it when i'm home i use it while i travel it's amazing it
has given me so much basically free flights i'm about to go to mexico and that was free
free basically using the points that i have gained just buying whatever i would normally buy
so that will go in my pants
if you are a fan of coffee and you have coffee every day while you're traveling then you know
if you're traveling slow and you're gonna just hop into an airbnb and stay there for
a few months like in mexico then maybe you can just pack your favorite mug from home
i love this mug from mexico so i was actually gonna maybe bring this with me because i'm
traveling slow but i'm going to mexico so uh i'll just get a different one while i'm there see i
told you this list would be different than others all right we have a few things here to talk about
we have an eye mask and ear plugs i always travel with these no matter where i go who knows how loud
it's going to be where you're staying who knows how much light is going to come in if you're going
to have curtains or not and you might want to sleep in especially because you're slow traveling
and it's just good to have and for the airplane the one plane you're gonna take this year the
grail water bottle this is an essential travel tool and i highly recommend you
check it out down below this is the best water filtration bottle on the market so i've been
traveling with this for a couple years and you can use it in the river you can use it
in the lake you can use it with the tap water like i'm going to mexico i can put the tap water in
here the tap water that usually you as a traveler and i think even the locals don't usually drink
so instead of buying a ton of plastic water bottles wasting all that plastic the environment
and your wallet you can just fill this up all the time and just drink out of this like why not
so this will actually save you money you might spend a little bit of money on this it's it's
not that expensive but it'll end up saving you money in within a month so for sure get this grail
water bottle the holy grail of water bottles and this one i'm going to pack in my day pack
which is another thing that you're going to need because you're not only going to be in your hotel
i mean you're traveling right so you're going to want to go places so get a cool day pack this is
the douchebag and the douche bag brand they're doing amazing things i really like this one
a lot of the bags they're based on adventurers so this is like a climbers a climber's bag based on
a design that you know like a climber would use so i like all the designs for different reasons
they're like snowboarders kind of designed bags but you can use them for everyday purposes they
just have like a slight tinge of design going toward that specific uh adventure activity so
yeah check douchebags out for sure i really like douche bags and i will continue
to wear whatever douchebag they they come out with okay this is another essential this is a
power bank you probably know about power banks but a lot of people get the cheap power banks that you
see it like a best buy or somewhere on the street the ones that are five dollars or ten dollars and
they might charge your phone like one time maybe maybe twice but probably not this one is a little
more expensive but not even that expensive right now it's maybe twenty five dollars highly worth
spending more money because this is crazy this will charge my phone many many many many times and
now with my new macbook which is the next thing if you have a newer version of a macbook where it
has the usb c plug it doesn't have usb anymore then you get a thing like this that has a usb
you take the usbc you put it into the usb or the usbc here and you can actually charge your macbook
you can charge it on trains planes buses so this one specifically i just found a few months ago
i was looking for something that had more power than the other ones
it's kind of hard to tell which ones are good so i suggest just going to the links
and going specifically to this one because this one is the best one that i've had by far
it's it's very powerful so i'm sure you guys want me to say hand sanitizer and that's all fine and
great but i don't travel with it nowadays when you get on a plane they give you hand sanitizer
so you have it on the plane you have it for when you get off and that's all a personal choice
my skin gets very very dry so i don't like to constantly put the sanitizer on my hands but you
can do that instead of that i have a little pill bag yeah i know i'm like an old man but i have
probiotics you're going to want to stay healthy while you're traveling and especially when you're
in one spot you probably have this space and me time to to be healthy and make sure
that you do it right so i have these bags where i have like b12 probiotics collagen
which you can look up if you don't know what each of those do
vitamin d so vitamin d supposedly helps against covet or before you get it or after you get it
or during it i don't know somebody told me that but that's just good for you anyway magnesium
glutamine and sleep aid i don't really sleep very well so i get like a a melatonin kind of thing
so anyway obviously staying healthy is important to me and it's not always easy while traveling
but now it has been made easier when you're traveling slow and you're staying in one place
a couple more things very quickly headphones everybody should have headphones put them
in your computer watch netflix at night put them in your phone watch something
on the plane i almost forgot that reminds me
this is one of my favorite things for planes and trains and even for in the bed if you're watching
a movie on your phone you take this little silicone kind of thing you can bend it up like
this put it on the back of a seat or something put your phone on there and there you go
you're watching ah and there you go okay watching a little bit of netflix or hulu or whatever you
watch oh which also brings me to another one i keep forgetting things that brings me to not a
physical tangible item that you can touch but one of the necessities for travel these days is a vpn
a vpn is a virtual private network it's something that you can connect to that blocks
hackers from hacking into your device your phone your computer especially over public wi-fi like at
an airport and that kind of stuff and and that uh hotel or hostel wi-fi where they can easily
get into your information steal your information so you put on a vpn and you're able to look like
you're somewhere else and it encrypts all your data so people can't get in another really good
part of it is like with netflix if you're in a different country and you can't get the netflix
from your own country you can put on the vpn as if you're in your own country and
get the movies and shows and everything that shows up in your own country so that
is a great reason to have it it is actually pretty cheap and i've linked below to a vpn
last but not least but this won't be important to everyone is a little camera if you want to
document your travels with a little bit of video then i suggest the dji osmo action this is my new
one highly stabilized it looks awesome and i am filming on the dji pocket which is even smaller
than this so i have really condensed all my stuff if you travel with a camera then you should try
looking into this because these cameras have gotten very very good these days until a month
ago i was traveling with a dslr you know a big camera a big camera with multiple lenses
and it's great and that's what i've done for a long time but i'm gonna give this a try
and it just makes it a lot easier to pack and bring around with you okay so that is what's in
my travel bag in 2021 during the pandemic let me know if i forgot anything i probably did
you