One bag is not about sacrifice — it is about repeatable decisions. This is the system that survives two-week trips in a 35-litre pack.
Think in outfits, not items
Three bottoms, five tops, everything cross-compatible. If a piece only works in one combination, it stays home.
Cubes are the furniture
One cube per category — tops, bottoms, small things — and the bag unpacks into any hotel drawer in thirty seconds. The cube is the drawer.
Wear the heavy day
Boots, jacket, jeans: the heaviest configuration travels on your body, not in your bag. Transit days have a uniform.
Leave a fist of air
Pack to ninety percent. The remaining space is where the trip lives — the market find, the extra layer, the return-leg laundry logic.
