Back-to-School Backpack + MacBook Air GIVEAWAY! My twin daughters, Brooklyn & Bailey, are each giving away 1 matching backpack, including all the supplies in them AND a MacBook Air, in their latest YouTube video! That’s two wonderful prizes you can win! There are many ways to enter, including a random act of service for someone else. The only requirement is to be a subscriber of the BrooklynAndBailey YouTube channel. {Completing all of the entries can greatly increase your chances to win!) Do one act of service and get 3 entries, or complete all the entries for a total of 28+ entries! Want to win one of Brooklyn and Bailey’s Back-to-School Backpacks? Simply enter in the widget below! {Be sure to click over in the widget to Baileys backpack and enter there, too!} For this giveaway, all rules and entries are managed by Rafflecopter. The widget will be selecting the two winners at random, and each winner will be contacted via the email address you provide in the widget.

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Today’s travel fashion girl is Amanda Pastyrna. She’s a surfer and hiker obsessed with exploring – both her local backcountry in Southern California, and far off destinations. She has a surfer girl’s love of beautiful things, coupled with a desire for gear that performs. best backpack highbankerAfter much frustration looking for travel-friendly pieces that were both feminine and functional, she opened a store selling the kinds of pieces she couldn’t find elsewhere. nku backpackIt’s called The Stoke LA and sells handmade, unique, environmentally-friendly accessories that are both for and inspired by travel.josh lyman backpack brand Keep reading to learn more about her travel style!backpack laos pantip

It’s not unusual for a trip of mine to include hiking or backpacking, surfing, exploring the city and diving in some combination or another…hence my serial obsession with finding pieces that are versatile, quick-drying and cute! Generally I prefer carry-on, since getting around is just easier when you’re packing light. It also makes long stop-overs much more fun: With just a carry-on, you can easily leave the airport and do some exploring! Check out TFG’s recommendation on the best wheeled carry-on suitcases. Depends on the trip: I’m constantly teeter-tottering just to one side or another of that divide, although in general I love to pack light. To be honest, it’s been something of an obsession for me to build a wardrobe that is made up of pretty, quick-drying and low-maintenance pieces that are in my favorite color families (so they’re easy to mix and match). I’ll usually pack a few outfits for everyday (these I’ll dress up with jewelry and accessories), one or two dresses, and my hiking/outdoor gear.

A large travel wrap, packable day bag, my kindle. Summer beach destinations are always great – sundresses and flowy skirts are just easy and beautiful to wear. On the other hand, often much of the fun for me is in discovering clothing and dress items that are unique to the places I travel: I might enter a country with a fairly bland wardrobe of basics, but leave there decked out in fantastic hats, wraps, skirts, dresses – beautiful and interesting pieces I may not find at home. I don’t know if anything has surprised me in that way, exactly, but I did finally learn how to put on an Indian sari recently. (It’s tricky – no pins, no straps – it’s all in the way you wrap it around yourself.) It gave me a whole new sense of awe for the women I’d seen at construction sites around India, who are not only tough as nails, but do all of their tasks wearing this massively-long, intricately-wrapped length of fabric. A comfy and cute tee, pants, silk travel wrap, sandals.

(And I usually keep a jacket handy as well, just in case.) Check out some of our favorite airplane outfits. My travel wrap, hands-down. I carry our embroidered silk reversible wraps with me everywhere. The size is perfect to wear as a dress or as a sarong, the silk is really compressible, so they can scrunch down to make a teeny scarf or head wrap, I use it as a towel and beach blanket, I can wear it as a kimono. I’m kind of in love with that ratio of weight in my suitcase to versatility! Sunscreen, sunglasses and a hat. As a surfer who spends FAR too much time in direct sun, I think I can manage without pretty much anything else, but sun-protection is my must-have beauty essential. I always carry a little bottle of coconut oil. Works great to remove makeup, sunscreen, and to pamper salt-and-sun-fried hair.Sadly, I’m allergic to any kind of heel (knee problems), so I’m always in flats. I usually have a pair of hiking shoes, and a pair of foldable everyday sandals.