It’s amazing, the living space tucked into this teensy vintage-looking pull-along. Makes me want to close my laptop right now and travel America’s backroads indefinitely. Or maybe that’s my hellish workweek talking. Regardless, cute trailer, no?

I’m so glad the puffy vest is back. It’s far and away my favorite type of vest. Throw one over a sweatshirt and you’re good to go, through fall and even on both ends of winter. Lands’ End’s new take on the chilly-weather staple is fairly thin, inexpensive, and comes in a ton of colors for kids and adults.

Because you are always too fancy for stemless plasticware.

Feel like hunting mutated, radioactive animals in Chernobyl? Buying homemade guns in Pakistan? Me neither. But Vice magazine writers do. Or rather, did—both those things and more, with cameras in tow. This is no pleasure cruise, my friends. It’s dirty, scary, and sometimes drunken, with plenty of “holy crap” moments. Two thumbs up.

Check out the trailer. (Includes profanity. You might want to turn the sound down if you’re at work.)

It’s nice to have a barrier between you and the hotel room floor. Something supersoft and cozy that doesn’t hog space in your suitcase? Even better.

(Thanks for the heads’ up, Jennifer Wilson, travel writer extraordinaire.)

A while back I posted about Minimus, the company with over 1,000 toiletry products that come in at 3 ounces or less, helping you abide the TSA restrictions when flying.

Minimus just came out with this, their new carry-on caddy, a nylon bag to hold that regulation clear plastic baggie full of toiletries. The idea: Clip that carabiner onto your luggage so that the baggie’s handy at security—no last-minute frantic freak-outs digging for it in the bottom of your backpack.

For a little extra cash, they’ll pack the baggie for you. Product-grouping choices: male, female, organic citrus and organic lavender (pictured).

I’m a word nerd. Numbers, not so much. I wrote my cashcard PIN number down in a secret place after I learned the hard way that if you suddenly blank on those four numbers? You get no cash. So this luggage lock is just my style: All letters. Beautiful, sensible letters.

The lock is TSA approved, too, which means airport security has a master key and can get in and out of your bag if need be.

Funky pins with a purpose: Hand-beaded by women in South Africa, their proceeds help fight HIV/AIDS there.

(via funkyfinds)

Forty questions dedicated to one topic. Comes in versions including politics, travel, dating or golf, so choose wisely, and use on long car trips at your own risk. The kiddie version, shown above, should be pretty safe.

Speaking of, I pictured the KidTopics to Go because I found this product on the brand-spanking-new mightyjunior, a kid-centric sister site to the awesome shopping blog mightygoods.

Maybe not having potential pong on the horizon makes you a wee bit nervous?

(via uncrate)