What is going on YouTube! Greetings from Chiang Mai Thailand. In today's video, I'm
gonna show you what's in my carry-on only bag after six months of traveling!
This is actually my last night here in Chiang Mai. Tomorrow I jump on a plane
and head to Kyoto Japan so I'm really excited about that
but I'm also gonna really miss Chiang Mai and I'll definitely be back here
again for sure since I'm leaving tomorrow and I need to pack I figured
I'd share with you what's in my carry-on only bag after six months of traveling
for those of you that have been watching my channel for a while you'll know that
I am a carry-on only traveler and when I first left I did a video showing exactly
what I was gonna carry with me well some of that stuff has changed and I figured
I'd do a video updating you on what's in my bag after six months of traveling I'm
also gonna go ahead and pack it all up in this video so you'll see exactly how
I get all this stuff in my carry-on only bag okay if you remember from way back
in my first carry-on only video I was traveling with a 30 liter Osprey
backpack which I still have and a over the shoulder satchel where I put all my
camera equipment and my computer well I've gotten rid of that satchel and now
I only travel with my 30 liter Osprey backpack I did that for a couple reasons
number one I can fit everything in my 30 liter backpack so I didn't really need
the satchel and some of the low budget airlines here in Southeast Asia and
Latin America will count that satchel as your carry-on and they were making me
check my 30 liter backpack so I've solved that one bag only problem by just
traveling with one bag I do have a little workaround with that and I'll
show you later on in this video okay so let's start packing everything up so
when I first started traveling I had packing cubes and a sea2summit
compression bag I got rid of the packing cubes and now all I have is the
compression bag the reason I got rid of them is I didn't really need them almost
everything I have fits into the compression sack and so that's all I
travel with now in my bag okay so the compression sack I travel with is a
sea2summit I think this is a I want to say it's a
10 liter bag I'll put a link in the description it's great I love it I can
it's so much stuff in here and then I can compress it down and I'll show you
that in a moment so let's start with my shorts
I don't pack all of these shorts in the compression sack I have five pair of
shorts two of them I'll go ahead and lay flat in my bag and I just do that so I
can fit more stuff in this compression bag four out of five pair of my shorts
are multifunctional they're also swim trunks I really like going to the beach
and I like swimming in pools so I needed a bunch of swim trunks anyway a couple
of pairs I have or Quicksilver and the other two pairs are really cheap Amazon
essentials and the reason I have those is so I can just ditch them whenever I
go to Europe and it's a little bit colder and I can add another pair of
pants the Amazon essential shorts are only like $15 so I don't really feel bad
about ditching okay so I'm gonna put three pair of
these shorts in my bag okay so the next thing I like to put in my bag are my
shirts I have seven shirts I have the shirt I'm wearing and I have six other
shirts they're all merino wool shirts and I won't go too in depth about them I
did a very in-depth merino wool review video and you can see all seven shirts I
have I have six short-sleeved t-shirts and I have one long-sleeve merino wool
t-shirt I really love that long-sleeve merino wool t-shirt it's very
multifunctional I've worn it hiking in cold climates - rainbow mountain and in
Patagonia but I can also pair with these jeans that I'm wearing and go into a
club and have no issue all right so I'm gonna pack these up real quick I like to
roll these up really tight if you've never seen my video on how to do this
how to do a Ranger roll I'll go ahead and link it somewhere above my head
alright now that I got all my t-shirts in I'm gonna throw my underwear in so I
travel with four para underwear three merino wool on balm merino underwear and
one pair of ex-officio alright so the last thing I'm gonna throw in this
compression sack are my slacks I love these slacks they're my bluff
works they're the thin cut chinos and these things are also multifunctional
I've hiked Patagonia I've hiked Machu Picchu in these they're great hiking
pants but they can also be worn as dress pants
and I've gotten into some really nice michelin-starred restaurants in these
things that had no issue all right so I think I'm gonna try to get one more item
actually in this compression sack so I don't travel with an umbrella I travel
with a rain jacket this is the only jacket I have if you watched my previous
video you'll know I left with two jackets I left with this and a puffy
jacket I lost that puffy jacket I actually used it as a pillow on a plane
and it fell in between the seats and I forgot to grab it and so now I'm just
traveling one jacket which is fine I'm in Southeast Asia right now and I don't
need another jacket but when I head over to Europe it's gonna be a little bit
colder and so I will add a puffy jacket but if you remember from before I get
those puffy jackets that like fold into their self into their pocket and you can
compress those down really easily I might actually get rid of this rain
jacket I've been thinking about just getting those cheap ponchos that you can
get those reusable ones you can get it like 7-eleven I have used this a few
times but I don't think I use it enough to justify the space that it takes up in
my bag so next time I go home I will probably leave this and just replace it
with one of those Poncho's or a couple of them because they come in those
little packs you can just throw it in a side pocket in my bag all right so I
pretty much got this thing as full as I can get it so I want to show you how
great this thing is alright so that's pretty much all I'm gonna stick in here
this sea2summit compression bag is actually one of the keys to my carry-on
only travel lifestyle and why I was able to ditch my other bag it just compresses
this stuff down so well I can't recommend this thing highly enough if
you're trying to travel carry-on only definitely get one of these they're
really cheap - I think it's like 20 bucks or something like that much
cheaper than the compression sacs and you have all this leverage that you can
get with this thing so I usually just crank down on this thing and get it as
small as I possibly can one of the great things about merino
wool most of the stuff in here is merino wool is it doesn't wrinkle that much and
what I do when I get to a new place is I just go throw them in the sink soak them
in water for a little bit and then I hang dry them and all the wrinkles come
out so I highly recommend merino wool - you should check out my merino wool
review video all right so I can definitely crank this crank on this
thing get it smaller all right I could probably give this thing a little bit
smaller but I think this is good enough all right so what I do this is the 30
liter Osprey backpack I travel with this thing is great it's like a hundred bucks
it's one of the best investments I've made I wasn't sure if this was gonna be
a big enough bag I thought about getting a 36 or a 42 but this one has worked out
great and it looks so small you'll see when it's packed up it just looks like a
high school backpack or something and I can't recommend this thing enough if
you're gonna do carry-on only I love it I'm actually probably going to do a
review video of this backpack because I think if you're gonna go carry-on only
no matter who you fly with no matter what budget airline you're flying with
you can probably get this on as carry-on okay now that we've got most of the
clothes pack I'll show you how I start to pack this thing
so what I'll usually do is I'll throw a pair of shorts in here on the bottom
I'll just like wine the bottom of it with the short and this is just because
I can't fit them all in the compression sack alright so once I got the shorts in
I'll take this compression sack and I'll throw it at the bottom of the bag so all
my clothes are down here at the bottom and I have all this space left in the
bag that's what's so great about that sea2summit compression bag it makes
traveling with a 30 liter bag like this possible I have three pair of socks that
I travel with I have two pair of ankle socks
these are bolt merino they're both made by unbound merino
they're great I use them as workout socks mostly so I usually just throw
these in my bag alright so the next thing I travel with which some people
think is weird is I travel with the travel scale I'm
really into fitness and I like to monitor my weight this is just one of
those luxury items that I made room for in my bag I usually throw this back here
and where the computer goes I have two slots so one I'll put my computer in and
the other one I'll put that travel scare one alright so the next stuff I have
here are just ins and outs so I always travel with a pair of sandals I put
these sandals in the back here where the straps tuck in so I don't have to take
up space in the bag I could probably fit these sandals in the bag but I just
throw them back here it's worked for me and so that's what I do these are
actually bigger sandals than the ones I started with and I'll probably when
those ones wear out I'll probably get a smaller pair of sandals and now it's
just throwing the rest of my stuff in my bag I have a lot of electronics I'm a
full time travel vlogger so I have all my travel electronics I have this hard
drive here it's one of those rugged ones so I don't mind just throwing it in here
I also have a extra battery charger by Ankur this thing's really cool I got the
smaller version and it always keeps my phone charged phone flights and stuff
like that so this thing is perfect for me they make a longer version but this
one works for me I don't need anything bigger especially with the size bag I
have I usually pack this up here on top so I can so I have access to it there's
a little pocket on this Osprey bag on top you have quick access to alright so
the rest is just like I said the electronic gear I travel with so I have
my camera my a 6500 and one lens in there I have this extra lens which is my
Sigma 16 millimeter I'm actually thinking about switching cameras to a
much smaller camera I have an a 6500 and I have two lenses I'm thinking about
switching to the new sony RX arc 7 I believe it is it seems to have
everything I want in a camera but in a much more portable size so I'm thinking
of switching that camera and that'll save me even more space in this panic
this little bag here stores a bunch of my my wires my
electronics my universal adapter and this is the only extra bag I kept
besides that compression bag it's made by Eagle creepy I have my ball cap I
have my warm cap that I keep in here this is my little microphone and this is
another thing for my camera and I have this long pole for my GoPro it helps me
take it actually goes up to about 6 feet and it helps me take aerial shots so
I've gotten rid of my drone I used to have a drone but I just wasn't using it
enough to justify all the space it took in my backpack so I got rid of it and I
replaced it with this and I get sort of drone shots with this so next is just
another little tripod that I use for my phone and my a 6500 sometimes and then
just all the other odds and ends that go into my bag alright the last thing
before I talk about these two little bags right here is my macbook I got a
new MacBook I started with a 13-inch it broke on me and so I had to buy a new
one and now I have a 15-inch MacBook it makes editing videos a lot easier and I
have a cover for it but I loaned it to a friend who's travelling to an island
right now she'll be getting it back to me tomorrow before I leave
so this will actually be in a little cover so it'll be more protected but
that I just throw back here and that's pretty much everything I own again I've
I keep saying how much I love this bag what's great about this osprey bag is it
also has these compression straps so you can make this bag look much smaller and
compress your stuff so you don't have to worry about some ticket agent thinking
that she needs to weigh your bag so yeah that's it everything I own everything I
travel with is in this bag right here it's pretty heavy last time I had a
weighed it was 16 kilograms and most budget flights over here in Asia won't
let you bring any more than 9 kilograms so I really like this bag because it
looks small and I can usually avoid getting it weighed all right so let's
talk about these two bags so these two bags I pack in here if someone decides
to weigh my bag at the airport I can take all my valuable items out like my
computer like my cameras and I can stick them in this bag this little bag
essentially replaces my over-the-shoulder satchel I used to have
except with one big difference when I'm not using this I can fold it up and just
throw it in my bag so if some ticket agent does make me check this bag I can
take out all my valuables and stick them in here I can take out my laptop I can
take out my computer things like that also another little hack when you're
going up to the counter to check-in you cannot you can throw your heavy items in
here to make sure your bag weighs in at the proper weight so you can take out
your computer you can take out your camera or whatever else is kind of heavy
and throw it in this little bag here and they'll think it's just your personal
item the other little bag I have is this little bear bag I found this just makes
traveling so much easier I can put my money my wallet my passport all in here
and it all stays in one place and I can run it through security just in this
little bag and I know it'll be safe and so then I don't misplace it or forget
what pocket I put it in in these bags I always know it's in this little bear
satchel and I can just throw this over my head
when I'm walking to the airport I also take this bag to grocery stores when I'm
in countries so I don't have to get a bunch of plastic bags so both these bags
just have a lot of functionality and utility so I'm really happy that I
switched from that satchel I had to just these bags I can pack in here
alright so that's my carry-on only bag I'm headed to Kyoto Japan next week I'll
do an apartment tour and then I have some pretty cool videos lined up for you
I'll be doing a sake tasting in Kyoto and I'll also be doing a Zen Buddhist
monk retreat so both those should be really interesting videos if you haven't
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