When you think of insect-repellant clothing, do you think of safari-looking pants, a long-sleeved button-down shirt, and hat with a back flap and perhaps netting? While that can be incredibly effective at keeping the biting bugs away, you don’t have…
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Whenever and wherever I’m going in my travels, at least one pair of travel pants is going in the bag, often two or more of them. These Kukura Trek’r ones from ExOfficio are now on top of the stack, a…
I wore the ExOfficio Women’s Vent’r Pants during my shore excursions on an Alaska cruise last month, and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the performance. Granted, I had a pair of leggings on under the pants in both…
I reviewed the great travel underwear from ExOfficio a shade over two years ago at the old version of this blog, but I’m reviving the subject again because we’re giving away a set of three of them over at Perceptive…
Whether you’re playing 18 holes at the local golf course or hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro, you need a reliable quick-dry shirt to maintain your body temperature. Sweating too much in the winter can cause hypothermia and sweating in the summer…
If you’re doing some general traveling, then comfort is the name of the game. You don’t want to look like a slouch, but there’s no need to get dressed up in a suit and tie. Instead, you want a polo…
If you spend a lot of time outdoors, such as camping, hiking or another type of outdoor adventure, then you know that insects, such as mosquitos, horse flies, gnats and other pests can ruin a good time. However, by purchasing…
Mozzies? Well if you travel internationally in the tropics, you hear that word a lot—a slang term for mosquitoes—often accompanied by some kind of swear word. Whether you’re camping in a national park, on safari in Africa, or backpacking around…
Forget about lions, tigers, and bears: Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals of all. The World Health Organization estimates that mosquitoes cause a million human deaths annually, a figure that dwarfs all others of its kind. While malaria accounts for the…
The challenge: Pack only two pairs of Tilley “fast drying, sweat defying” underwear on my week-long road trip from Colorado to California. The reasoning: The undies are made with 100% polyester CoolMax Extreme Mesh fabric, so I could wash them…