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Travel Bags are My Lumens | Research List

My dad LOVES flashlights. He loves to tell you how many lumens each light has. He loves tiny lights, and big lights. He loves battery-powered and solar-powered and lawd-only-knows-how-powered lumens. Does he have a favorite flashlight? Yes. Does it change? Also yes. In that spirit I reveal what readers of this blog already know: I…

Research List: A List of Things to Buy

I’ve been keeping this list for a lot of months now, and here’s something I learned: if you wait long enough, during a pandemic, whatever you wanted will be sold out anyway so you don’t have to decide if you really want to buy it at all! Y’know what I need absolutely zero of but…

Seeking Sunshine

I am suddenly having a yellow moment: I want everything I own to be yellow. Check out the citron I’m currently coveting (during covid*). Shop the items here. RIP to Hill City, aka men’s Athleta, which launched right before the pandemic so bad timing. 🙁 The entire site is 30% off, including the hoodie pictured…

Research List: Performance Yoga Joggers

It’s Texas, and it’s hot. But sometimes you don’t want shorts, and it’s too blazing hot for leggings. Enter, the grail I’ve been looking for: yoga joggers. Joggers that have sweat-wicking, breezy properties, rather than being made of cotton or terry or fleece… they’re kinda hard to find tho. Shop it here (not affiliate links)…

Research List: Adult Backpacker Backpack

When my trekking backpack won’t do, and my ski backpack probably would—it’s done week-long trips in Hawaii and Morocco, after all—my upcoming two-week trip through Europe seems like a great excuse for a new travel backpack. Here are a few I’m eyeing … Adult Backpacking Backpacks Shop packs at this link (NOT affiliate links). Extras:…

Shopping Research List: Camp Stove

My friend Matt nerds out over gear shopping. I wish I was like Matt, because I want the best deal on the best camp stove but I do not have the patience for comparing weights down to the ounce and features down to the speed to boil … for my camp stove, do I want…

Research List: In Search of Better, Fewer

A few years ago I implemented a strict one-in, one-out policy for clothes-buying. It was successful, but I constantly wish I would pare down more: I have a few pieces I love, love, love, and I wear them ALL THE TIME. Why bother keeping the rest? Because I might, maybe, possibly want to wear them…