#luggage
The cabin bag everyone recommends, and I skip
The 40x30x20 size is one airline's boarding gauge, not a standard. Twenty-four litres advertised, an EU rule not yet in force, no purchase.
The panel-loading cabin bag that stopped me swearing
An on-paper analysis of a 40 L panel-loading cabin bag, after the missed-bus episode in Chiang Mai.
What the thief left in my bag
Nine objects ignored in four seconds. A stranger's ranking of my own belongings looks nothing like the one I'd have made myself.
What the bag held in Bangkok
A bag emptied onto a bed after three months on the road. What went in the trash along the way, and why packing creates objects that don't exist.
I forgot my padlock combination, the night before departure
A thousand combinations, forty minutes sitting on a bed, and a discovery more embarrassing than the memory lapse itself.