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Travel Gear Review: Tilley Endurables Travel Shirts

1/9/2013

 

My travel wardrobe is getting a "top"makeover.

Travel Clothing at Tilley www.turnipseedtravel.com
Trying on the David Cline shirt for the first time.
When you're traveling the carry-on only way, you really need to make smart choices. But just as important is making happy choices, choosing clothing that you love, look good in, feel good in. This is especially true of shirts, as no other piece of clothing will be featured so much in your photographs. If I'm going to be rotating between the same 3 or 4 shirts on a month long trip, I better love them!

I knew Tilley Endurable shirts were a great choice for me because they wash and dry with zero fuss in a hotel room, they're lightweight and breathable, and many of them even have sneaky security pockets! I love that they are designed for real bodies and shapes and that there are a ton of colors, designs, and fabrics to choose from. I know I'll be traveling with some of their classic short sleeve, button down shirts, so I wanted to give two different types of shirts a try and see how things worked when I mixed things up!

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Travel Gear Review: Tilley Endurable's Travel Skort

24/8/2013

 

It's a skirt! It's a short! But is it really a skort?

Update! Tilley no longer makes skorts but I hope this post will inspire you to check out all the other amazing things they make.

Tilley Endurables review travel skort
Vanessa modeling the skort mid-transition.
Like many ladies, my view of a skort is an above-the-knee pair of shorts with a skirt-style front, combining the sporty practicality of shorts with a more polished skirt finish. My Tilley Endurable skort is much different -a pair of knee length, lightweight, comfortable, regular shorts – with a detachable skirt that can zip over them! How crafty is that!?! The skirt layer is a few inches longer than the shorts, hitting below my knees, and attaches around the waist band via a discreet zipper. You can easily unzip the skirt portion in under 30 seconds, and it just takes a tiny bit longer to re-zip it back on.

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Travel Gear Review: STM Velo 2 Bag and Cable Wrap 

18/8/2013

 

We're testing the STM Velo 2 & Cable Wrap to see if they solve our travel packing problems.

STM Velo 2 Medium turnipseedtravel.com
STM Velo 2 Medium

A Packing Challenge

My passion with ultra-lite, organized packing is well known – I spend days (if not weeks!) obsessing over the placement of everything in my pack, debating each items’ merits and weighing it according (sometime literally weighing it!). But no matter how much I organize the main pack; there are always last minute odds and ends being stashed in my day bag. While I’d like to keep my day bag for just my camera, or maybe my iPad, the reality is that water bottles, magazines, snack packs, umbrellas, guidebooks and more tend to infiltrate it! The result is a heavy, awkward, bulging mess.

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Travel Gear Review: The Perfect Little Black Travel Dress

14/8/2013

 

Update: Tilley Endurables no longer sells travel dresses. I hope this post inspires you to check out other wonderful products they make!

Last week TurnipSeed Travel was thrilled to announce a partnership with Tilley Endurables, to outfit us on our Around the World adventure this fall. 

For a sneak peak of some of the clothing  going in our carry on only bags for the trip we will be reviewing an article or two every week or so until we depart. Last week we reviewed our Tilley Hats. Today, TST is going to show you the one go item that every lady needs in her closet: The little black dress - Tilley Style!
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HEY! Wait! This isn't the opera house, Ryan!

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Traveling with Tilley: Why We Love Our Tilley Endurables Hats

31/7/2013

 

We're traveling with Tilley Endurables Hats -and we're taking them all the way around the world

Vanessa at Tilley in Toronto: Tilley Endurables Hat review
With Cindy, Tilley Endurables hat guru.
There’s nothing I love more than getting my backpack out a week (or two!) before a trip, grasping my packing list (you all know how I feel about lists), and laying out my clothing for a trip. I envision all the exciting scenes where I’ll show off my little black dress and the hikes I’ll embark on in a new pair of trail runners.

Every chance to travel is precious one and I want to enjoy every step of the process, from booking tickets and reading guidebooks to sorting through photos and distributing the souvenirs.  It always pains me to hear people say how much they hate packing. Packing should be easy, uncomplicated, and stress free.
Vanessa at Tilley Endurables
Investing in a high quality, long lasting, versatile, and comfortable travel wardrobe you love is a fun and practical way to tackle packing challenges and have a more enjoyable travel experience. 

We are so proud to partner with Canadian made Tilley Endurables to build the perfect travel wardrobe for our upcoming round the world trip and demonstrate to our readers that packing can be a pleasure, not a chore. 


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Travel Gear Review- The North Face Verto 26 Day Pack

8/6/2013

 

Updated 2022. I'm searching for the perfect, lightweight, stuffable day pack. Would The North Face Verto 26 work?

​This post contains affiliate ads and links, which means we may get paid a small commission if you make a purchase

The North Face Verto 26 review
Stuffed in its sack: The North Face Verto 26 is ready to go. Images courtesy backpackinglight.com
Verto North Face 26 pack review black and red
The North Face Verto 26 all packed. This travel day bag holds a lot!
As I slowly move away from the backpackers’ lifestyle and explore more grown up travel, I find myself yearning for some of my old gear. It might have been beaten up, scuffed and stained, but it was comfortable and it worked! One item that’s been hard to give up is my daypack. I’ve mostly moved to bags and satchels, but there are still times when a small backpack is best, such as hiking and transporting snorkel gear to the beach. My old daypack (originally a zip-off from a main pack), was about 15L in size and, while comfortable, was just a tad too small and the design made it difficult to squish up. Enter the North Face Verto 26 from the Summit Series.

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Travel Gear Review - Notebooks

9/4/2013

 

I am addicted to notebooks and stationary - even when I travel!

Staedtler fineliner pens and recover journals travel
I love traveling with nice pens and notebooks - how about you?

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Travel Gear Review: My Three Favourite Things

24/3/2013

 

I can't travel without these 3 packing essentials

I've heard so many people pose the question "What are the three things you can't live without when you travel?" And inevitably, the answers are always almost the same: passport, smart phone, money. Sometimes clean clothing or a good guidebook makes the list. I've been thinking about my own past travels lately and I've been remembering that there was once a time, not that long ago, when you didn't need all that much money, there were no such thing as smart phones, and you didn't even need a passport for certain trips. Here are the three things that have really been with me since the beginning - they come along every trip.
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Three of my favourite things!

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Three 3-1-1 Tips and Top Ten TSA Friendly Toiletries

1/3/2013

 

Updated in 2022! Struggling with liquids in your 3-1-1 kit? Try those travel toiletries!

Note: This post contains affiliate links and ads.

Vanessa sitting on her bed, surrounded by travel supplies and TSA friendly toiletries
Hanging out with all my travel gear, including TSA friendly toiletries.
By now you know I'm crazy about carry-on only luggage and that my idea of a good Friday night is reorganizing my 3-1-1 kit! A 3-1-1 kit, for those visiting for the first time, refers to the toiletry bag regulations for your carry on liquids. Each traveler is allowed to have 1 transparent bag , it must be no bigger than 1 quart in size, and the liquids must be in containers of 3 ounces or less.

I've written in the past about how easy it is to get by without a huge toiletry bag and go 3-1-1 all the way. I really believe any toiletry hoarder and product hoarder can do it. Here are three key tips for taking your 3-1-1 kit to the max, along with 10 dry products that can go in any kind of luggage.

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