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 .

Round up of great links posted to Twitter by travel writers and bloggers around the world. This week’s travel tweets from @andrewghayes, @vagabondjourney, @irishfireside, @worldhum and @indietravel…

Round up of great links posted to Twitter by travel writers and bloggers around the world. This week’s travel tweets from @socialtours, @almostfearless, @travelojos and @travelfish…

Do you Twitter? I think I’ve officially become a Twittaholic. I can’t help myself. There are so many great travel bloggers and writers sharing interesting travel news and links on Twitter right now. Here are some of the travel tweets that caught my eye this past week.

Here’s the first of our travel hacks, a quick, easy, and inexpensive DIY projects to get ready for your next trip! It’s often difficult to keep a constant eye on your backpack when traveling on trains or buses, especially on overnight transport. A simple steel cable, with loops on each end and a padlock can be used to secure your backpack to a luggage rack, seat leg, pipe or post…

You’ve just crawled off an overnight bus, tired, disoriented. You walk over to driver who’s busy tossing bags out of the luggage lockers under the bus. There’s lots pushing and shoving, people grabbing their belongings. The pile dwindles as you stand back and shake the bus cobwebs off and take a few sips from your water bottle.

Once the backpacking hoards move away, it slowly dawns on you that there are no bags left to claim…

Are you a woman thinking of traveling solo, just you and your backpack? Family and friends trying to dissuade you saying it’s not safe, pointing out all the catastrophic scenarios that will befall you? Do you still want to go? Read on…

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?…

Staying healthy while traveling, especially on long trips, can be a challenge. Change of diet, change of climate, even lack of sleep can wreak havoc on even the toughest digestive and immune systems. Packing some basic medication can save time and trouble in the case of minor aches and pains (and possible hangovers!).

Toiletries can put your “packing light” skills to the test and can easily end up being the heaviest and bulkiest items in your backpack. Keep in mind that unless you’re traveling for extended periods to very remote locations, you can count on being able to purchase basic items like soap, shampoo and toothpaste locally….