Press

Coverage of the No Baggage Challenge, August and September 2010. Where a publication has since taken its story down, the link goes to an archived copy.

• San Francisco Chronicle (September 17, 2010) – No-luggage travel packs more potential (archived copy – the original is gone)
  Newspaper travel column on what a bagless trip says about how the rest of us pack.
• Boing Boing (September 13, 2010) – Rolf Potts is traveling around the world with no luggage
  Short post pointing readers at the challenge while it was under way.
• Sydney Morning Herald (September 3, 2010) – Travel writer takes the no baggage challenge
  Interview on leaving the 65-litre backpack at home and fitting six weeks across 12 countries into his pockets.
• Peter Greenberg Worldwide (radio) (September 1, 2010) – Traveling Around the World, Without Luggage: Rolf Potts
  Radio interview, transcribed, that starts from baggage fees and works through how the packing actually worked.
• News.com.au (August 31, 2010) – Rolf Potts aims to travel the world with no luggage (archived copy – the original is gone)
  Australian news story filed as the trip set out.
• Huffington Post (August 20, 2010) – Traveler Attempts to Go Around the World in 42 days... With no Bags!
  Johnny Jet's write-up of the trip for HuffPost Travel.
• USA Today (August 20, 2010) – Six weeks around the world, with no bags: could you do it? (archived copy – the original is gone)
  Laura Bly's piece for the paper's Dispatches travel blog, which put the question to readers.
• The Four Hour Work Week (August 20, 2010) – How to Travel 12 Countries with No Baggage Whatsoever
  Tim Ferriss laid out the plan the day before departure, with a reader giveaway attached.
• UPI (August 20, 2010) – Around the world with no baggage
  Wire brief on the departure.
• Newsweek's Budget Travel (August 20, 2010) – Around the world...baggage-free (archived copy – the original is gone)
  Budget Travel's blog on the trip and what it meant for packing light.
• Wired (August 20, 2010) – Global travel writer abandons all baggage, stuffs all his goods into his clothes (archived copy – the original is gone)
  Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond blog picked it up the day the trip began.
• ABC News (August 19, 2010) – Rolf Potts Circles the Globe Without Luggage, Not Even a Carry-On
  Scott Mayerowitz's news story, written before the first flight out of New York.
• Gadling (August 19, 2010) – Justin Glow and Rolf Potts embark on round the world trip - with no bags
  Travel-blog coverage of the pair setting off, cameraman included.