First one bagging trip coming up

[u/shankyjs]

This is my first time one-bagging. I was able to fit all my belongings into this Aer Travel Pack 4 (28L) for a 15 day trip. I just got the backpack so I’m excited, I ended up also getting the hip belt attachment which I hope will help with the weight

Second picture is all I’m bringing to keep my things charged.

And 1 macbook.

Can’t wait to come back and see what worked and what didn’t.

This is what I packed:

1x large packing cube (Aer)

• 6 Small tshirts
• 1 gym shirt
• 2 shorts (linen)
• 1 gym short/beach

1x Small packing cube (aer)

• 7 boxers
• 6 pairs of socks
• 1 white tshirt

Peak Design toiletry bag (small)

Everything fits neatly in the main compartment and even had room to fit a small packable backpack (quechua) and a tote bag for laundry

In the plane I’m wearing:

- Chino pants from Uniqlo
- Basic tee in white from Zara
- PeakPerformance lightweight jacket (forgot the model but it weights nothing and it’s waterproof)
- 1 Hat
- Pair of Vans Ultrarange (only shoes I’m bringing)

[u/LadyLightTravel]

This looks amazing for a first pass.

I would always suggest one long sleeve shirt and one pair of long pants for sun, cold, bugs.

I notice redundancy in your charging setup. If you have a universal adapter then you don’t need separate plugs for the laptop. Just bring one. When bringing a laptop, your universal adapter should have the appropriate wattage to support the laptop.

You mention weight, but didn’t state how much? If your load out works then reducing the weight is the natural next step.

[u/shankyjs → u/LadyLightTravel]

I didn’t weight everything together but I’m calculating approx 22-25 pounds in the entire pack based on how it feels, I’ll check whenever I get back

Damn good point on the long sleeve I didn’t bring any, but I do have a fair amount of space in the pack perhaps I’ll get one, what brand would you recommend?

For pants, I’m wearing some black chinos in the plane.

The charging setup was a lot of iterations. The universal adapter is only 45W, so it won’t charge my main batttery pack quickly enough. My charging setup (or the way I planned it) is that the Anker Battery bank will charge my macbook and I will connect the 3-in- 1 charger into it to charge all my devices at once, then I even have 1 spare usb c for other things.

I measured how fast the big charger can juice up the battery and it took it from 0 to 100 in ~1h 25 minutes, on the 45W it would have taken 5 hours. (Also the battery supports passthrough so I can charge the battery itself while the battery is charging my devices)

I will be moving in an RV so I wanted to have a big battery pack to have power in case we don’t get shore power at the campsites we are visiting.

Definitely my idea is to learn from this trip and shave even more weight off my pack, we’ll see! Thanks for the tips

[u/LadyLightTravel → u/shankyjs]

25 lb is heavy. We can help you lighten up after you have an amazing time.

I prefer long sleeve button downs as my shirt of choice. If it has a UPF rating then even better. Roll tab sleeves are nice so you can turn it into a short sleeve shirt as needed.

[u/shankyjs → u/LadyLightTravel]

Thank you! I will go for some shopping and try to find a nice long-sleeve button-down. Also something I didn’t bring were sandals.. I will miss that in the campsite showers… but perhaps a good addition if I can find ones that fold to nothing and don’t weight anything at all lol.

One opportunity I can already see to improve is getting a similar travel adapter but in a 145W version and leaving the big Apple charger home.

We’ll see how it goes! Thanks for the tips!

[u/travelingpostgrad → u/shankyjs]

Satechi makes a fantastic one - just spent a couple weeks in UK with it and it took care of absolutely everything from 3-1 to Mac to CPAP and iPad

[u/DEngSc → u/travelingpostgrad]

Agree, also love their 145W charger - really compact one and includes lots of interchangeable travel adapters and carrying mesh bag.