Our Lives in a Bag

There's something daunting about packing a rucksack and knowing that is basically everything you will need for the next 9 months, 20kg or so,

Some clothes, shoes, couple of books each, laptop and tablets, chess board and kids games, toiletries.

5 people. maybe 50kg of luggage in total.  Doesn't seem a lot to be honest.

We did a lot of research on which rucksacks to buy and eventually decided on Osprey, 80L and 65L packs for me and S, with the kids all carrying 20L smaller packs.

We've yet to pack but the Ospreys do look great, especially as they open like suitcases which should make it much easier for finding stuff than traditional top-loading packs.

I'll update on future blogs on how the packs hold up to the rigours of family travel around SE Asia.