This is both a blessing and a curse: the straps look great and work great. This bag also has compression straps to either shrink the bag for lighter loads (dimensionally), or to shrink down a fully loaded bag. It's the best way to load and organize your carry. So, like a suitcase, if you've never used a bag like this before. The bag opens clamshell, like all good travel bags (or honestly, EDC bags). Aquaguard ziplines on most of the main openings. Lastly, the zippers are chunky YKKs, and they rule. Once you have the luxury of pockets offering individual capacities in Evergoods products, it's hard to adjust to anything but. Another disappointment is the pockets lacking their own capacities. The worst, most disappointing pocket is the outer-lower pocket that defines the middle zipline when facing the bag. The best, most thoughtful pocket is the top "access" one right next to the primary handle. And there are plenty of pockets and places to stash your stuff. Inner materials and organizing pockets are the same cookie-cutter layouts and style from other Aer bags, but that isn't a bad thing - it's functional. It's a very sleek, slick, tough ballistic nylon exterior that deflects lint, pet hair, and debris of any kind. This is an Aer bag, so you likely know what to expect if you've seen or used their hardware before. This system works well, since you do not want to lug the Aer around as your daily bag upon your destination - it's too big for that. As part of this experiment in using this larger bag, I also had been packing a Tom Bihn briefcase rolled up so I could deploy as my laptop bag upon arrival. This is my usual 3-4 day load out for work travel or personal travel (in autumn/winter months, given weather conditions), so if it can be accomplished in the bag, we're good. I comfortably fit two loaded Tom Bihn shoulder bag packing cubes, a Peak Design small travel cube, Tom Bihn grab bag (for toiletries), a tech kit, extra batteries, notebook, hardcover book, MacBook Pro, and iPad 11 in in there without a problem, and had plenty of room to cinch the bag with its compression straps. If you can't set yourself up for a week's travel within the confines of 33-35 liters, you're doing it wrong. 45L seemed to large, and even 40L was pushing it. CapacityĪt 33 liters, this is a few liters short of many similar-sized "carry on" backpacks in the space. The Aer Travel Pack 2 is an excellent, satisfying choice for being a de facto one bag solution for travel. Curiously enough, about 6 months later, I'm selling this bag to double-down on the Evergoods CPL version 2, but let me not get ahead of myself. Good news, I have a few perspectives on this subject, and in particular, the subject of this review - I selected the Aer Travel Pack 2. There are dedicated bloggers/vloggers, endless kickstarter projects or post-kickstart projects that grew into huge successes, there are niches within niches, and there is shortage of intricate viewpoints on what the preferred array of attributes should be, from size, capacity, opening style, pocket placement, zipper pulls, weight, shoulder strap padding, grab handles/locations, on and on, it's overwhelming. No longer is the technical material/hardcore design/one-bagging niche a small industry anymore from my pattern of research, it's massive. As usual, I spent an inordinate amount of time researching my options - and there are a shocking number of options.
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