NEW!! Upcoming!! Ultimate SouthEast Asia 6 Month Travel Adventure: Exploring With Just One Bag!

NEW!! Upcoming!! Ultimate SouthEast Asia 6 Month Travel Adventure: Exploring With Just One Bag!

Welcome to my channel well in today’s video I’m actually getting ready to go on another 6mon travel Adventure over to Southeast Asia and I’m only going to travel off of one bag which is this bag here in front of me now I’ve made videos of this bag before in the past and I’ll

Leave them in the link below but what this is this is the 40 lit gr2 go rock pack okay it right now weighs about 4 lb which is you know kilos that’s about 1.85 lb and my goal always is to keep this bag at about 25 lbs which is what

Maybe uh 12 kilos or so um so but what I want to kind of bring up is that you know what are the why I like to travel with one bag I think there’s a lot of advantages to it one I believe it’s just totally less stress when all you have is

Just this one bag to think about on an airline that makes a whole difference in the world you know you don’t have anything checked in and uh it just kind of gives you peace of mind at least it does to me and very number two it’s ease of

Moving you know moving around the airport you got everything on your back and it’s just you know it’s there you know you’re not missing anything and again it gives you another Peace of Mind and number three you only take what you actually need you know you’re not overpacking everything you know you’re

Getting it down to a point where you have everything you need is inside this bag and if you are missing something whatever destination that you’re going to whatever country nine times out of 10 you can find that item there in that country so um I just love doing it I’ve

Been doing it for quite a few years now and uh it really is uh the way to go as far as I’m concerned everybody travels different you know you can travel with the uh the roller bags I generally don’t like the roller bags um I like everything on my

Back uh and I’ll tell you why here in a second um why I prefer the bag over a roller bag but what I’d like to do is kind of give you a little bit of a detail view of what’s inside this bag without going too in depth because

Obviously I don’t want to bore you on every little thing that I carry because everybody kind of carries differently okay on whatever your special needs are I’ll just kind of show you kind of the overview and then that’ll give you a general idea and there’s so many different backpacks out there um and

Every one of them’s got advantages disadvantages you know you just find one that you like you like to use and then just go with it and if you don’t like it you know try another one out me I found this one to be pretty good and uh it’s it’s very durable and tough

Now one thing I like about this gr2 is It’s kind of broken down into like a clamshell type so I’m going to do is take out you got these things you unzip it the zippers are really very durable so you got one clam kill and then inside

You got these mesh storage areas where you can carry stuff and it’s got a gazillion pouches in it you know pouch on the top you know you can keep stuff even a you know a uh a pouch in the front you can put something quick this is my own Carabiner

I spent years Contracting uh traveling the world and uh Carabiner came in really handy so I just kind of just left it on there and then you come to the next one and I’m going to take this one down permanently and kind of show you what I have in the

Bag without going into too details so what it does is kind of breaks down right here this is the actual inside of the bag and this is another part of the clamshell you know you know it’s the mesh pouches I’m not going to break everything out I know where everything

Is and uh it’s pretty easy to get to um you know it’s hard for me to misplace anything because everything’s got kind of its place um but what I will show is the thing that I like the most are these compression sacks and I’ve been using

These for a long time this is my clothing sack this is what I use for all my clothes that I carry which is not a lot for Southeast Asia it’s pretty you know warm over there uh this is my camera bag I got both my cameras I carry

Two GoPros I got 11 and a a 10 and 11 right now I’m filming with the 11 and I got the 10 for the backup there’s an old say in the teams we used to go two is one one is none uh you know it’s a backup in case

One of my cameras goes down so camera bag just a little fleece jacket this is my liquid bag I like these little plastic things cuz you just Jam a lot of stuff inside of them and then this is kind of my ronic bag I show kind of give you an

Overview inside you got this little plastic which is pretty cool carries all my uh you know little hard drives on it um little cables that I use for my computer for video editing and it fits right neatly inside this pouch right here so got that I got this small little bag this is

Kind kind of a mini backpack especially when I go around I start doing my videos my vlogging Adventures I carry this on my back it’s real simple it’s light doesn’t weigh anything and I can carry maybe a bottle of water in there my spare camera which I usually always bring with

Me and this is another spare little backpack that I carry um and I’ll explain one of the advantages of actually having one of these here shortly but uh it’s really nice in case I want something a little bit bigger than this I got this and uh been really helpful at times believe

Me um this is my traveling gym I totally believe in Fitness these are two bands that I carry along with a we call a door jam um most there’s a lot of times at the hotel that I’m in the Gym’s not all that good or I like to just do it in the

Hotel room and get it done with because some sometimes these hotels that you go to and you know their uh their Gym hours are really crazy like they won’t open up at a certain time and I like to work out at a certain time to kind of like get my

Workout in so um I carry these and it I really can get a good workout in you know if you really if you want to see how I set these up I can make another video on how to do a really good hotel room workout where you can get really effective exercise in

A matter of minutes and if you’re interested in that let me know in the comments cuz I definitely will show cuz I I totally believe in Fitness I I take that as one of the top priorities when I’m out I mean I’m always doing some type of pushup pullup

Workouts and uh I I just find it um something I I have to do before I do anything else I got ex a tripod in here this another stick especially when I now I carry the uh uh DJI mics so so this is my extra uh Selfie Stick It kind of

Extends out it’s a bit more heavier diry but it’s very easy to pack you know what I’ll show you here is I put this in the bottom very simple and and then next I put my clothing bag in I know how much each one of these bags

Weigh too and that is a key factor also especially when you get overseas let’s say over when I’m over in puket I do a lot of um that puket is like my base once I get down there and base meaning that from there I can travel anywhere in

Southeast Asia go from let’s say uh on the last trip um I went from pukat to bangcock to La spent a lot of time in LA and then came back to pukat and then that one over the Philippines you know under Cambodia you know Malaysia you

Know it’s kind of like going back so pukat is my base so that’s why you see on some of the videos I got a lot more videos on pukat sometime because sometimes I’ll be there for a couple weeks and I I love making videos and uh

Sometimes I’ll make it to the same Beach and so forth so I know on getting back to the uh uh the bag weight is often times when you go to uh budget Airlines let say Air Asia cuz I take Air Asia a lot uh they only let you travel with

What at 7 kilos which is what maybe about 15 lbs I believe and sometimes they’re a little bit you know they they they’re they check the bag sometimes they don’t I find in poop cat uh when I do the flythroughs they don’t even check the bag weight although sometimes when I’m

Leaving the other countries they want to check the weight so to get around that to get down to that weight because right now I’m traveling about 25 lbs is I take this extra bag and I’ll I know what the weight is on these bags and I’ll simply use it to

Uh lighten up my Lo a little bit and actually throw this on my back so I can get the bag down to the required weight I do that before I come into the actual check-in counter and that is a key factor do everything before you get to the

Check-in sometimes I just leave it like when I’m traveling over there I just put this in the bag that way if I need to I can just pull this out because basically this is going to get me down to the required weight just by pulling this bag

Alone so pack that up nice and neat I say everything’s got a place you know it’s that’s one thing about one bag you know where everything is at you don’t really misplace items like sometimes like oh I don’t have this I don’t have that you know I put this uh liquid bag in

Everything is easy to get you know so when you go through security like you know you have to pull this out so it’s very easy to pull out and put my little fleece there kind of acts like a little bit of a padding and I got my camera bag got all my

Cameras inside well just one right now cuz I’m using the other one and I put that on the top and goes nice and easy rip it up up these are really heavy duty zippers by the way I have had nothing but um High reviews for the zippers on

These bags cuz you know I have few zippers on other backpacks and sometimes they just like fall apart but these they keep going and on the back this is my computer pouch which is really tough they say it’s bomb prooof this is actually designed by a uh

Former Green Beret believe it or not so here is my little uh computer it’s a Apple Air which is really light and compact which I like everything fits nice and neat now see we make sure I don’t forget anything I always have my little little notes right here so it’s kind of my

Little script on I don’t forget anything um I I went over the uh you know the advantages of this bag which is to me it it beats traveling with checkin bags I mean if you got to check something in you got to do it you know what I mean

But if you don’t have to check anything in just go without it just travel with this one bag you know you can do it especially when you get over to Asia okay you don’t really need a lot of stuff over there um what I do key points is live out if

You want to travel with one bag I suggest you live out of that bag for at least a week before you’re going to depart now right now I’m currently living out of it cuz I’m leaving next month so um everything I need is in here

Um you know I take it out I put it back so I kind of like eliminate anything that I might need you know I don’t need and uh I’ll just jettison it so good idea live out of the bag before you leave and you’ll definitely learn a lot

About that uh put it on you know put it on your back see how it fits make sure it fits right you know with these goes on well just like that stand up I don’t want to stand up because then I you want to see me in the camera but

Uh and another key point is I was going to bring up the roller bag concept now it’s okay to travel with a roller bag if you like that I don’t like it myself cuz often times I I’ll tell you why um sometimes especially on Air Asia depending on what zone you’re in um

You’ll get into that last Zone and there’s absolutely no overhead space left at all and you can fit your bag this bag can go under a seat uh a roller bag generally won not go under a seat so um this is my little tear right here and

What I do is I test it right so this is I got some tape I put and what I do I I see if everything fits right which it does so everything fits well underneath a seat unlike a roller bag not so much I mean the advantage of a roller bag is

It’s not on your back and if you’re carrying it in the airport you know maybe you uh you’re not used to it now I carry I do a lot of uh actual Ruck walks or backpack Fitness walks I just did one the other day um

Over to uh Tory Pines and uh actually I didn’t take this bag but I have a simulated weight bag that I use that has that weight in it and uh it gets me used to carrying a pack but although I do take this pack on some hikes just to

Make sure everything fits well it rides well on my back let’s see anything else that I may have forgot I think uh covered everything without you know going over in too much detail but one new thing I’d like to bring out that before I used to have this uh I

Used to carry this other little bag right around my waist call like a butt bag but now I’ve gone more to the sling bag and what I like about the sling bag is it rides right up on my chest okay um inside I don’t have my passport

With me here it’s in the over in the cabinet but I keep my passport in here all my travel documents are important documents wallet are all right here on the front of my body okay they even have a pouch for the phone which is pretty cool so you pull out the phone you

Know and uh you got that and you know you got uh couple other little pouches you can carry little knickknacks in whatever you like to carry on a flight it’s all right here you know so it’s all on my chest and one advantage of this is especially when I

Start getting around crowded areas uh you got to be careful of the Pick Pockets I don’t like carrying things in my pocket I like things right on my chest where it’s secure often times where I go film and Vlog um it’s really condensed I remember when I was over in

Bangkok in Chinatown I mean I was literally wall toall people and uh I had this bag right here this sling bag in you know it’s always there in front of you and nobody can slip their hand inside and grab your wallet because you have everything right here and uh I

Think that’s a good Advantage I mean that’s just what I like to travel with um and I find to be really effective um but this is it if you have any you know questions or comments on my one bag travel you know leave them in the comments I really

Appreciate it I’m really looking forward to this next six Monon travel uh over to uh Asia um I plan on going to a lot more countries this time and going to some also repeat countries to explore even more and uh I’m really excited about that so um thank you very much and I

Hope to see you in my next video so see you from San Diego California

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Traveling with One Bag Only! Southeast Asia Travel Adventure

TravelingFrogman is A Retired Navy SEAL/United States Marine / Maritime Anti-Piracy Operator Now A Full-Time Southeast Asia Adventure Traveler.