No matter where you’re off to this winter—a Bahamian island, a snowcapped Swiss chalet, a Roman hotel room with a generous gelato-delivery policy—one thing is for certain: your travels will be irrevocably changed for the better with the next-level travel tools below...
Remedial-level travel: get a suitcase to hold your precious belongings. Advanced-level travel: get a tiny Bluetooth device called an iBeacon for your suitcase. And this app, which syncs the beacon up with your phone to alert you when your luggage is rounding the baggage carousel. Or strikes fear in your heart when it doesn’t.
This is the kind of dopp kit that’s made in Maine from heavy-duty canvas and bridle leather, is limited to just 100 units and comes stocked with hygienic essentials like alpine shave jelly. In other words: the kind of dopp kit that might actually get you excited about shaving.
Back in the 1940s, the NYC-based luggage firm T. Anthony made suitcases using full-grain leather, hardwood frames and those shiny brass combination locks that make it look like something Churchill himself might have hauled to India. Today: they’re still doing that. And your socks are just as important as Churchill’s.
A few things you’ll write in this notebook:
—“This Italian-leather covering is the definition of ‘supple.’”
—“The fact that the leather was colored with natural tree bark pleases me.”
—“Hey, this has a built-in zipper pouch for pencils. People still use those?”
—“I should probably write more about my travels and less about this notebook.”
Look, you may not even know the rules of dominoes. But we do know that 1) these handcrafted birch dominoes are better-looking than other dominoes, and 2) the stranger in seat 2A is better-looking than other strangers. Certainly the two of you can figure it out on your tray table en route to Cartagena.
