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Welcome to my world as I travel as many roads as
I can and document some of the experiences.

Do Bag Makers Really Understand Their Customers? Questioning the Value of Unnecessary Features

November 13, 2024

I’ve been searching online extensively for different styles of bags. My search expanded to include tactical and hiking packs, and I discovered some sling-style bags that seemed to meet more of my requirements. One standout is a sling bag from Waterfly. It ticks off several of my ‘Must Have’ requirements. Including, it was very affordable.…
Major Life event…

October 17, 2024

I had one of those major life events this September. It was my birthday week. Work was not a lot of fun, I couldn’t remember the last time I had really laughed at work and on top of that, they were making organisational changes and cut the Product department in half. Then that day happened,…
I can’t find a bag that suits

November 24, 2023

I have been doing a lot of Google searches in the last few weeks trying to find a bag that I dont believe exists. As per a previous post I have been doing a lot more thinking on this problem. Here are my initial requirements. No Requirement MoSCoW 1 Needs to be able to carry…
My bag philosophy

November 18, 2023

I love bags and have bought far too many over the years… this is my view on how we should look at bags.
2023 isn’t working out as expected

November 17, 2023

May 27th 2023. My skill set and Mountain biking trail conditions didn’t match. The SES had to take me off the trails with 4 broken ribs. I spent a week in the hospital. Plus, I had caught Covid the day before at a work meeting with 2 colleagues who had caught it earlier in the…