Why Carry-On Bags Only?
Traveling light has many advantages, especially as many airports around the world are experiencing staffing shortages causing long lineups, delays, lost luggage and unnecessary stress. Keep calm, and carry-on! Learn how to navigate bag allowances, overhead bins and no legroom. Save money, pack more efficiently, avoid additional baggage fees, and never worry about losing your luggage! Feel good about lowering your carbon footprint and become more sustainable when traveling.
Our Mission
Carry-On Bags Only is on a mission to educate, encourage, and inspire people to travel minimally. Click the dropdown list to learn more!
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Carry-On Bags Only aims to provide information related to travel such as tips and trends. The goal is to also help raise awareness regarding sustainability and the benefits of traveling light so that you can have a lower carbon footprint when you travel whether it be for business or personal.
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One of the main purposes of Cary-On Bags Only is to promote travel with as little baggage as possible, empowering you to get out in nature and to see the world in the most eco friendly way possible!
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The Carry-On Bags Only website, podcast, and social media accounts showcase world travel through stories, photos, and interviews. It also connects you to inspirational and like minded people!
Meet Kelsey
Kelsey created Carry-On Bags Only, as she wanted a space where she could share travel stories, provide inspiration and build a community of other travellers embracing the benefits of traveling light. Both her parents inspired her at a young age to travel and to pack everything into a carry-on bag. She saw an opportunity to leverage her skills from her work in Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability, to educate others and to encourage people to adopt a minimalist mindset when it comes to traveling.
After running in the 2017 World Airline Road Race in Singapore, Kelsey was motivated to incorporate more physical activity into her travels. Since then, she has completed several adventure races in Canada, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the UK of varying distances. Some of the adventure race disciplines included a mix of running, hiking, biking, or kayaking/canoeing. Kelsey has a goal to run a half marathon on each of the seven continents while raising awareness to keep our oceans and beaches litter free. She has logged and tracked litter collected in an app from some of her running routes.
To this day, she still chooses to travel light as much as possible to limit her environmental footprint in the places she travels to and she has a passion for raising awareness to protect the planet. Kelsey hopes to educate, encourage, and inspire others to travel and become more sustainable through the stories shared on the Carry-On Bags Only website, podcast, and on social media.
Join a community of minimalist travellers!
Be sure to follow and tag @carryonbagsonly_ on Instagram and use the #carryonbagsonly hashtag to share your own carry-on adventures and discover other like minded minimalist travellers!
