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Three t-shirts, two pairs of pants, one jacket. This 25-item list keeps you under 7kg, looking presentable, and doing laundry once a week maximum.

Seven months through Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Southeast Asia. Here's every piece of gear that failed, what held up, and what I'd replace.

The compression myth dies here. Packing cubes don't create extra space, they organize it. But the time savings are so good you should use them anyway.

Five liters sounds small until you realize 40L bags get gate-checked more, encourage overpacking, and trigger the stuff-expands law. Here's why 35L is the ceiling.

Stop guessing. The real weight limit for comfortable one-bag travel is 7kg, and here's the physiology, airline data, and body weight math that proves it.