One Bag, Anywhere: Travel the World with Just a Carry-On

Holly Snow is a travel writer and minimalist packing coach who has traveled with a single carry-on since 2013. Over more than a decade, she has visited more than sixty countries across six continents, specializing in the kind of extended, low-planning travel that only works when your entire kit fits under the seat in front of you.

Her essays on travel minimalism and packing systems have appeared in a range of travel and lifestyle publications, and she teaches packing workshops for frequent business travelers, long-term nomads, and first-time one-baggers alike. She is the creator of a popular packing newsletter, where she breaks down real trips—actual itineraries, actual gear lists, actual lessons—for a growing readership of travelers who have decided that dragging a suitcase is a choice, not a law.

Holly works regularly with corporate travel programs and adventure tour operators, helping teams cut their luggage workload without cutting comfort or professionalism. She is a firm believer that the best packing list is the one you revise after every single trip.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, two cats, and one 40-liter backpack—which, at this exact moment, is empty, because she is between trips and the laundry is still drying. Her next flight leaves in eleven days, and she is already looking forward to the moment at the carousel where she keeps walking while everyone else waits.