Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Jana Elsea asks When you travel, do you prefer hard side or soft side bags? Checked or carry on, Rolling or carry? Also, how many passport stamps/additional passport pages do you have?

During the entirety of my travels, I used a soft-sided bag. My primary bag for much of that time was an Eagle Creek Gear Warrior. I always checked that bag when I flew.

The reason why I checked a bag is because I had to. I lived on the road, and I couldn’t fit everything into a single carry-on. My tripod also made it impossible to have a smaller bag that I could fit in an overhead bin. The only times I’ve had problems with my checked bag, I could count on one hand. Three of those incidents involved Air Canada.

I have no idea how many stamps I have. I have used three passports in the course of my travels, and my second passport has three extra sets of pages, which is something you can’t do anymore.