The humble daybag, is often an afterthought in the whole “choosing the right travel gear” process. When you think about it, in the course of your travels, you’ll spend many hours each day lugging around your daybag but only a few hours, or maybe only minutes carrying your main, large backpack .

Need a little help shopping for the backpacker in your life? Or maybe mom or dad need a little help picking out the right gift for their intrepid traveler offspring? We’ve come up with a list of practical and budget minded gift ideas for the holiday season or for any other special occasion…

Surprisingly, the longest column on the cult of travel packing list is the one labeled “stuff”. What is all this travel stuff? Well, gadgets of course which we covered in Part 5 and all the extras that can make living out of your backpack a bit easier…

21st century backpacking, no matter how light you profess to pack, usually entails bringing along a few gadgets, if only your digital camera. Add to that a laptop computer, MP3 player, mobile phone and all their related cables, chargers, adapters, batteries and you can easily end up with several kilos of expensive gear.

When traveling light and traveling cheap, what you bring is as important as what you don’t. We all have our “must pack” items and these 6 are not the necessarily at the top of everyone’s list or even the most essential. They’re my personal recommendations and go a long way in making my trips more enjoyable. They’re all compact and lightweight, why not give them a try?…

Following up on our story about VoIP on the iPod Touch, it seems that we now have the missing link software which will turn your iPod Touch or iPhone into a lean, mean VoIP calling machine…

Part II of our packing series is all about clothes! Every traveler finds themselves faced with the big dilemma of what to wear on their adventure. From tops to bottoms, undies, jammies and more, we’ve got it covered…

The iPod Touch the new best travel gadget ever? Apple announces new features that will turn the iPod Touch into a powerful VoIP device. The iPod has become ubiquitous on the backpackers’ circuit these past few years and none other than yours truly kept waiting for the day that Apple would truly put the internet in my backpack…

First of an 8 part series on packing starting with packing philosophy and important things to consider when choosing a backpack. Even the long time traveler struggles with packing, trying to find that sweet spot between packing too little and, more often that not, bringing too much…