5 steps forward 10 steps back.

Yeah I'm back again with my sad sad story about looking for the perfect bag. There is no perfect bag out there with all the bells and whistles you want on it.

I thought there was a perfect bag out there for me however I had purchased it already. I needed the perfect bag to go on a week long trip and didn't think my Big Haul 40L would work.

Needless to say after doing a test pack it does work. I used a combination of compression cubes and rolling my clothing. I purchased the Big Haul 40l several years before my upcoming trip not knowing that I'd need Duffel bag.for traveing.

Heck I even packed my REI Rucksack 30L for a week of traveling although it was tightly packed.

The moral of this story is to use what you have if you already have something and not to fall for the marketing hype.