Tag: Hacks
Hackpacking: Emergency Flash Drive
Have a digital backup plan when on the road—a secure flash drive loaded with your most vital documents and details. Here’s how to build your own—via Gizmodo’s Andrew Tarantola
Hackpacking: Make a Rubber Band Travel Clothesline
Unless you’re willing to over-pack, or spend valuable time in laundromats, you’ll want to wash some items in your hotel room sink. But, how to dry?
Hackpacking: Using Poste Restante or General Delivery
Poste Restante (dubbed ‘General Delivery in the US’ and ‘Lista de Correos’ in South America) is a service whereby the post office holds mail until the recipient picks it up.
Hackpacking: Grapefruit Seed Extract
Travellers gastro, or diarrhoea, is the most common ailment of backpackers travelling abroad. But in the last few years, a new weapon has been emerged in its prevention and treatment—grapefruit seed extract.
Hackpacking: Vodka’s many uses
When faced with a lack of laundry facilities—or a prohibitively expensive laundry service—Kathryn and I have learned to do what many backpackers have before us…
Hackpacking: Hacks for travellers
Occasionally, Kathryn and I come across some great travel ‘hacks’. Here are a few inexpensive solutions that might be deserving of a place in (or on) your backpack.
