Meet Doug Dyment, the Go-Light Travel Guru

Jan Pierce
Go to http://www.onebag.com/ where you'll meet Doug Dyment the "Go-Light Guru" and you'll learn all you need to know about packing your bags for travel. Doug is a highly successful speaker and writer in the field of travel. He maintains that anyone can learn to travel with only one bag if they follow his guidelines. He has had a series of professional careers including senior corporate executive, university professor, entertainer and software engineer, all of which required him to travel extensively. Consequently he chose to develop onebag.com in 1996 as both a web design project for his current employer and as a personal challenge. He wanted to share his expertise in the area of traveling light.

Help for the Harried Traveler

The design of onebag is clean and easily navigated. For even the casual traveler there is clear and useful information. His tabs on what to pack and then how to pack it are literally jammed with useful information in this age of heightened security, excessive baggage charges and the stress of getting from one place to another post 9/11. His step by step bundle wrapping method for packing your one bag is complete with diagrams and is reason enough to visit the site.

Travelinks

Dyment has done a thorough job of researching travel resource sites and has them catalogued in five categories in his travelink section. There are sites for suppliers of travel products, accommodations information, transportation, minimization (ways to cut costs), and a miscellaneous section. He has anticipated any travel need you may think of in this helpful section.

More Tips

There are also tabs with helpful information on how to select the proper bag for business or leisure trips, using a packing list effectively and tips on how to do last-minute checks to ensure a smooth trip through security, and through to your destination. This site has earned the Tripbase best Eco Travel Award for 2009 as it demonstrates the best in traveling simply with a minimum of "stuff" that can make travel more difficult and expensive. If there is travel in your future, you'll enjoy reading through onebag.com.

Published by Jan Pierce

Jan Pierce is a retired teacher with a Master's Degree in Education and over thirty years of teaching experience. She has traveled to India five times and works there with projects for orphans, widows, and y...  View profile

  • You can learn to travel with just one bag.
  • You can avoid excess baggage charges.
  • You can learn to pack with the bundle method and arrive at your destination with no wrinkles!
The bundle wrapping method of packing clothes involves wrapping clothing around a central core object.

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