Here are 7 travel products that longtime travel journalist Lyn Mettler WILL NOT travel without from her favorite footwear and sunglasses to luggage must-haves and travel backpacks.
Read more and use Lyn’s affiliate links to check out some of the products she mentioned below:
- Lyn’s review of OOFOS (which she’s seen lots of people on Maui wearing!)
- Buy OOFOS
- Lyn’s review of Prive Revaux sunglasses
- Buy Prive Revaux
- Lyn’s review of TRTL Packing Pods
- Buy TRTL Packing Pods
- TRTL Travel Pillow (also awesome if you need to sleep on a plane!)
- Buy TRTL Travel Pillow
- Buy Packing Cubes
- Buy Portable Luggage Scale
- ZizzyBeeBags.com (not an affiliate link)
See More…
- TRTL Pillow Review: How This Amazing Pillow Helps You Sleep on Planes
- PODCAST: Packing Like a Pro: Expert Tips From Katie Pyle at OrganizingMoms.com
- PODCAST: How My Family Switched Entirely to Carry-ons
- VIDEO: Should I Check a Bag? Checked Bags Versus Carry-ons Only
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Lyn Mettler is a longtime travel writer for US News & World Report, USA Today 10Best and The TODAY Show who created Families Fly Free, a program that teaches families her simple system to use travel rewards to fly for free. She is one of the industry's foremost experts on collecting and using travel rewards with her expertise featured in major media outlets and on podcasts, television and radio.
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