Travel writer in front of the bright red Town Hall of St. George's, in Bermuda. ©KettiWilhelm2025

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Looking for some real help planning your next trip? Use our detailed travel guides to help you plan your next city trip, foodie weekend, or outdoor adventure in a more sustainable way – but without guilt trips or sacrifices. These destination guides include everything – local hotels, restaurants, local tours and activities that we can personally vouch for, because we’ve actually been there, slept there, done that, eaten that!

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Ketti, the travel writer behind this blog, grinning in a desert arroyo, and modeling the dress code for UnCruise in Baja: Casual with light layers. ©KettiWilhelm2023

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Essential Travel Gear

Getting ready for a big trip? These are a few of the things I pack every time to travel better, lighter and more sustainably.

Travel Resources & Gear
Testing my Unbound Merino Active Merino wool tank top as part of my light-packing travel wardrobe in Europe. ©KettiWilhelm2023

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My LARQ self-cleaning water bottle, sitting on a rock with the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean behind. ©KettiWilhelm2021

Kill the bugs in ANY tap water (NO more plastic bottles!)

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My LARQ self-cleaning water bottle, and Grayl filtering water bottle, sitting on a rock with the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean behind. ©KettiWilhelm2021

…When the water needs even more work, use this

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Wearing my Tortuga travel backpack – one of the best sustainable travel gifts this year. ©KettiWilhelm2023

Going light? These are my favorite travel backpacks

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Plastic-free face wash powder and solid serum from Dew Mighty sitting on a wooden table. ©KettiWilhelm2022

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