- In this video series, you'll learn how to choose
the best one back travel backpack for you.
Hey, I'm Tom, the founder of Pack Hacker,
and we're a team of frequent to perpetual travelers
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I even spent one year living
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When it comes to choosing a backpack for one bag travel,
there's so many different brands and models out there
with varying degrees of style, durability, and price points,
and it's hard to tell, what's gonna work for you.
In this guide, we'll cover some things to consider
before you end up pulling the trigger on a new bag,
and we'll show you some things to look out for,
even if you're unable to go look at the bag
in person before buying it online.
Let's jump right in.
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This guide will be broken up into a couple different videos
for the different themes that we're gonna cover.
So if you're on YouTube, we'll be sure
to link everything up in the description below,
if you wanna skip around at all,
and if you do have a specific bag in mind,
be sure to head over to packhacker.com,
and hopefully we'll have a review on it.
If not, let us know, in the comments,
what you're looking at, and we'll try to help out.
We also have this guide available in written format as well.
So if that's more of your jam and you wanna read,
then feel free to check that out.
We'll do our best to try to keep that guide updated as well.
So here's the bottom line,
there really is no best travel backpack out there.
So in this guide, we're all about arming you
to kind of get you to a position
where you can make the selection based on your needs,
and hopefully we can teach some of our learnings with you
and make it a little bit easier for you to select.
So, why backpacks?
A lot of people ask me this, and I do have a couple reasons
for that, about why I personally prefer one.
Sure, roller bag luggage is great,
and you can kind of fit a lot more in there,
but there's a couple reasons why
I personally prefer backpacks,
and a lot of our team members
at Pack Hacker also prefer them.
So, number one, they feel very freeing.
When you land, get to a new location,
instead of needing to hop over to your Airbnb,
your hotel, or your hostel right away,
if you do pack right and pack minimally enough,
you're free to go do whatever you want
for the rest of that day.
When it comes to standard roller luggage,
you're kind of restricted to a certain terrain as well.
It's gonna be easy to drag that thing across the airport,
but when it comes to, you know,
maybe even a cobblestone road, you may start
to run into more problems,
and forget about trying to go take a day hike
directly when you land on your flight,
when you don't have anywhere to drop your luggage.
Travel backpacks are usually versatile and lightweight.
When you are gonna be wearing something
for a prolonged period of time, kind of forces you
to pack more minimally and really consider
what you're gonna be taking with you,
and that not only kind of frees up your mind
because you have less things to think about,
but it also frees you up physically.
You can move from, again, location to location
without that extra bulk, and you can be a lot more nimble
and a lot more quick when you're traveling.
So in this guide, we're going for travel versatility.
We want you to look good when you're exploring a new city.
We want you to feel good when you're walking around with it,
and we wanna kind of find the perfect pack
that's gonna fit in multiple situations.
It's needs to be durable and rugged and weatherproof enough
for you to be able to go camping for a couple days
and kind of go on an adventure outside of the city,
but again, it also has to look good
so you don't stick out like a sore thumb
if you're hanging out in a cafe or you're trying
to get some work done in a coffee shop for a day.
We wanna pack that's gonna fit
in both of those environments equally.
We do mention a couple different packs in this guide,
and a lot of them, we've reviewed already
and kind of collected our thoughts on.
So we'll try to share those insights for you
and kind of compare and contrast
different choices for one bag travel.
So thanks for taking a look at the first video
in this series on how to choose
the best travel backpack for you,
and be sure to take a look at the next video for more.
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