eBags Mother Lode Travel Backpack vs Osprey Farpoint 40

This is what Brian and I brought to Europe. I had my own medium packing cube and he had his own medium packing cube and we shared it. Zip it and voila...

Zippers and pockets are well designed. Spot for my iPad. Bottle/can holders on the outside. Excellent, padded hip belt for distributing weight

Without those fixes I do not recommend purchasing this bag unless you know your total weight will be light or if you are comfortable carrying large heavy weights with just your shoulders.

Overall, I was pretty happy with everything I packed. In the future I would like to pack to the size of my mini MLC but use my Osprey Farpoint 40 for the comfort. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy (and safe) travels!

So for instance, if you have to roll their wheels on the bottom or it also comes with a strap so you can wear it across your back or your shoulders li...

Getting it on, I could not see the straps AT ALL. If I did not have a traveling companion I am not sure I would have gotten it on. I would have required a mirror. Once on the hip straps did their job and kept the weight off my shoulders

This is the one that has 7000 reviews of customers saying that they can actually fit more in this bag than they can their role on carry-on bag. This i...

They do have a slightly smaller version that is closer to 38 Weir's and I Feel like this offers plenty of space for traveling for many weeks on end, a...

So big thumbs up for that! Something that I'm missing a little bit is a padded laptop compartment. I Travel with electronics quite frequently, so this...

I wanted to like this bag, and there are some things I do like, but the laptop compartment is a huge miss for me. I was looking for a pack to take with me to Borneo for 3 weeks. I managed to almost fit (but not) everything I wanted in to it, but it was like a stuffed sausage in the main compartment and a turtle overall. The small upper pocket worked well to hold my liquids, but what the heck could I put in the two sectioned laptop sleeve pocket? There are no small compartments, just a large zippered one and a large Velcro laptop one

There are many better bags if hiking is to be its main purpose. It works for me, flying on business, as I can keep ALL my office paraphernalia together AND have a spare set of clothes in case my checked bag goes missing (as though it ever would !). On days off / weekends during my trips, though, it doubles as a day pack on excursions. But it is NOT a full time hiking bag in my view

pack was balanced and comfortable on my 5'11" body. There are features of a quality hiking backpack: a stable but lightweight frame, contoured shoulder harnesses featuring load lifter straps that prevent sagging away from your back, sternum strap and hip belt that perfectly transfers weight away from the shoulders. I had a comfortable, hands-free trek through an airport terminal, onto a monorail, up and down subway stairs and along a half mile of sidewalk to my hotel. I'll never drag along rolling carry-on luggage again

there's a lot of zippers, a lot of compartments, and a section for just about anything you could want. So just on the outside of the bag, there's a co...

The smaller top pocket is perfect for your TSA liquid bag or throwing in the contents of your pants pockets before sending it through the x-ray machine. I do TSA Precheck so I don't have to take out my liquids, but leaving from other countries, liquids do have to come out so this pocket is handy. When leaving the US, put my wallet, cellphone and watch in the pocket so they're not in plain sight to temps any sticky fingers. The current model has more of a low key logo of just the bird and Osprey wording, not what the picture Amazon shows