Gear – Joe's Bucket List

Travel Gear, 2025

Joe — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:51:13 +0000

Back in late 2019, I wrote a post outlining my go-to travel gear: a snapshot of what I was carrying and why. It was simple, practical, and served me well through a lot of trips. Then the world… well… pressed “pause” on travel for a while. Fast-forward a few years (and many clandestine weekend trips, some of which violating absurd “lockdowns” and circumventing crazy masking rules)…

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‘Nixoid Next’ Nixie Tube Watch User Guide

Joe — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:06:23 +0000

There’s something super cool about wearing a Nixoid watch—the glowing nixie tubes feel like a portal to the past, strapped to your wrist. But if you’ve ever tried to set one, you might feel like you’ve been handed a relic with instructions written in hieroglyphics. Simply put: their manual could use a little bit of work. After spending an embarrassing amount of time tinkering, experimenting…

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How to Replace a Longines VHP Battery

Joe — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:32:45 +0000

I’ve written before about how the Longines VHP is one of my go-to travel gear items. Why do I love my Longines VHP (VHP = Very High Precision) watches when I travel? They are super nice but not too flashy, they are fancy without being too fancy and making you a target of a pickpocket, they are super easy to change time zones on (without having to hack the watch!), and they boast of the the…

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Sharing & Organizing Photos

Joe — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:19:51 +0000

As you may be able to tell from this blog, I take a lot of photos. After all, travel and photography are two of my favorite things! Traveling & taking pictures is an easy thing to do. But–how do you do it well? When you get home, then what? How the heck do you find anything? How do you organize and share all of those great shots? Before even leaving the house, know what you want to do…

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Travel Gear

Joe — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:57:52 +0000

Many of my friends have asked me about what gear I use when I’m traveling. I intend for this post to be the running list of different items that I travel with, and my justification for those items. (Note: 3 of these items are “in” the picture above–my GoRuck GR2 bag, my Citizen Blue Angels World Chronograph is on my wrist, and the photo was taken with my Ricoh Theta 360 camera.

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