Travel Kit
What we actually travel with.
In the order a trip happens. Booked, packed, and reached for.
This list is short on purpose. Everything here has been on the road with us, often for years. When something stops earning its place in the bag, it comes off the page.
Before we leave
The part nobody photographs.
The first thing we book and the one we hope never to open. We chose it because it covers the trips we actually take, with hiking days, long drives and camera gear in the boot. Peace of mind is a strange thing to pay for, until the day it matters.
What goes in the bag
Two people, ten days, one boot.
Two Carry-On X, one grey, one navy, and the reason our airport mornings finally look the way we wanted them to. They have been through the Dolomites and back and still look like the week they arrived, which after this many trips is the only review that counts.
What we carry on the days that start before sunrise and end somewhere we did not plan. Light enough to forget it is there, big enough for two lenses, a jacket and whatever the market sells us on the way back.
The slow hours
Trains, terraces, waiting.
Long train mornings and the hour after lunch when the light is too hard to film anything. A whole library that weighs nothing, which is the only argument a reader who travels ever needed.
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