EssaysApril 15, 2026·6 min read·Nowhere in particular
How to pack a notebook, and other minor religions
Everything I bring on every trip, sorted by whether it's ever come home unused.
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Nora Alviar
Writer & photographer
Cover: Rachel Coyne / Unsplash
I have owned the same Muji A5 notebook for eleven years — different copies, same notebook. The point of a notebook, when you travel, isn’t to remember things. It’s to have somewhere to put the things you already forgot.
Every packing list is really a wish list about the person you’d like to be on the trip.
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