The email arrived. “You’re hired!” With that, I’d decamp from Los Angeles for a new life living and working as a contracted freelancer in Europe. The romantic notion is that we digital nomads can stuff our lives into a backpack and head out. Not so much, really…

If you’re truly jet-setting from country to country and living abroad for months or years at a time as a digital nomad, nothing – nothing! – tops the Tumi Duffle for ferrying your clothes and shoes and whatnot around the world. This puppy holds 106 liters of “stuff,” more than 2.5x a rollabord, and larger than any backpack I’ve seen. It ain’t cheap, sure, but for a truly nomadic lifestyle, packing a Tumi Duffle is the sophisticated and civilized way to organize and transport your wardrobe from one outpost to the next. And it’s a Tumi – it’ll probably outlast you…