The pull of travel, of the open road. Every man feels its tug, but not every man is ready to answer the call. When the opportunity for an adventure arises, a man needs to be prepared to pack his bags, jump in his car, hop a plane or train, or mount his trusty steed. A man needs a few pieces of trusty gear ready to accompany him on every adventure, gear that will last for decades of trips and experiences, gear that will take whatever he dishes out and keep on ticking. Here’s your chance to win the travel gear you’ll carry with you the rest of your life.
This giveaway is huge. Saddleback Leather Company, the craftsmen who create the sturdiest, manliest, best-made leather goods on the planet, is giving away an overnight bag, a small travel case, a laptop sleeve, and a passport wallet. Four manly pieces of gear that all come with Saddleback’s unmatchable 100 year warranty. And you get to choose the colors you want.
You’ll have plenty of stories to tell your kids about where these pieces of gear have been, and they’ll be fighting over them when you’re dead.
Let’s take a look at the amazing booty up for grabs in this giveaway:
Overnight Bag
A man doesn’t use a wheelie bag. He carries something like this. The overnight bag is perfect for your spontaneous short trips. This bag is big enough for all your manly essentials. It has a false bottom where you can keep documents, pictures, and treasure maps without creasing them. And it fits in the luggage compartment of planes, allowing your to stride past the baggage check and get on with your adventure.
Small Travel Case
Every man needs a quality dopp kit to hold his toiletries and other supplies. But this travel case is far more than your typical dopp kit. Made with a detachable shoulder strap, thick, stout, full grain boot leather, and a tough pigskin liner, this is the one travel case that’s made to last a century. You can use it for your toiletry bag, or you can pack it with ammo, first aid supplies or even your lunch.
Laptop Sleeve (size to be determined by the lucky winner since there are 7 sizes)
The laptop sleeve is the latest leather creation from Saddleback. They’re not even out yet-the Saddleback laptop sleeve debuts on July 20. You can be one of the first to start protecting your laptop with stylish sturdability. Yup, I just made that word up.
Passport Wallet
Made with 100% full-grain boot leather, this wallet keeps your money, credit cards, and money all in one place.
How to Enter
- Leave a comment under this post sharing where in the world you would spend a weekend getaway if could pick up and go anywhere.
- Join the Art of Manliness Community’s Man Bag Group. In order to join the group, you have to be a member of the AoM Community.
- Share this post with your friends using the “Email Story to a Friend” button in our “Share” Box at the bottom of the post. For each friend you email this post to, you’ll receive one entry in the contest. This means the more friends you share it with, the more entries you get. You can only send 10 at a time, but feel free to come back and send some more. We can’t see your friends’ email addresses and would never send them spam.
Deadline to enter is Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 11PM CST. Enter early and often. Good luck!
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One weekend? Definitely Switzerland-probably the Alps somewhere.
I would definitely go back to Japan. That country is truly amazing to experience as a traveler.
I would take a trip to Scotland to visit old friends, see the sites, and travel around meeting people. Scotland, much like Ireland, is a great place to walk into a pub and have a conversation with a perfect stranger.
I would take my wife on a long weekend to someplace in the Caribbean…perhaps St. Marteen, or St. Johns
I would go to India for a weekend get away. Going and getting lost among the local people would be a true adventure.
I’d also do a ballpark tour of California.
Definitely Mt. Timpanogos Utah.
Climbing Angel’s Landing in Zion National park to watch the sunset would be a good way to spend a Saturday, and then the wife and I would relax Sunday by taking a horsey ride or or a helicopter tour of the Grand Staircase. I’m a huge geology nerd and she loves traveling and big scenery so this would be a great weekend! Definitely a break from the usual beach-and-rum vacations.
I would take it on my next camping trip to the City of Rocks. I like a bag with some dirt, knicks, and cuts on it!
Relaxing on the beach of Boracay, Philippines
I’d take them with me on a tour of southeast Asia. Or Africa.
jeju island in korea
Las Vegas! The perfect bag for a quick getaway
Id like to visit Bora Bora. In that climate, I might be able to break the world record for the world’s worst sunburn! It would be worth every single giant freckle though.
I would love to visit the Grand Canyon. As an American, there are so many domestic sights to see without ever stepping foot out of the country.
Boundry Waters.
I’d take my wife to Tuscany, and leave the kids with grandma for the week!
I’d take my wife to Tuscany, and leave the kids with grandma for the week. Or Istanbul, to see the Hagia Sophia!
I’d go to the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota, and I’d leave my laptop behind.
I would visit Padagonia to see one of the last unspoiled wildernesses of the world.
My wife and I would head to the west coast and do a road trip from California up to Seattle with a few sprints inland. Hopefully will happen in the next year.
I would go island hopping in Greece
I would take my girlfriend to Greece for the weekend. I’ve never been there, but she grew up in Athens until she was 12 and moved to the States. Her family traces their roots back to a little village (where they take their last name from) of beekeepers who are said to make the best honey in the land.
I would find that little village, take her there and ask her to be my wife. We could spend the rest of the time racing around on scooters as they do. Of course we’d have to leave room in the old Saddleback for a big jar of their famous honey to take home with us…and olive oil…and wine…
Goat cheese is probably best enjoyed locally.
Well, for a weekend getaway it’d have to be somewhere easily accessible with a main attraction – like Bunaken or some of the other dive sites in Indonesia.
If I had longer it would definitely be Peru – starting along the northern coast and then moving east towards the Amazon. But the roads there are pretty terrible so you’d need more than just a weekend.
Love to go back to Gulu, in Uganda and do another mission trip.
Thanks for such a fun website.
Steve
It looks like the kind of gear that you strap to a motorcycle and drive through God knows where in Central or South America, just trying to find the next town for food and gas, or maybe a good cerveza. I personally would do the same on a Ural Motorcycle from LA all the way along the Pacific Coast to Anchorage, AK.
I have been wanting to take my wife to England for several years now. We are trying to plan a trip in the not-too-distant future to have an adventure exploring Lake Country, the White Cliffs of Dover and to maybe make our way up to Scotland and Ireland. Can’t think of a better place to take this fantastic gear! Thanks for another great giveaway!
If I could spend the weekend anywhere in the world I would have to say Copenhagen or Roskilde, Denmark so that I could spend time with the woman I miss more than anything
I would take my girlfriend to Great Britain to see Hadrian’s Wall and Stonehenge.
CHILE!!!
I would go see my sister over in England and see the sights of the English countryside.
Colorado for a visit to my in-laws’ ranch. Hiking at Garden of the Gods, white-water rafting, fly fishing…rugged bag for a rugged adventure.
I would use these on a “quick” jaunt to Scotland with my wife. We’ve both been separately, but would love to reexperience it together.
i would first stop off to see my sister in chicago, whom i rarely get to see, while im on my way to visit my girlfriend in portland so we could walk around the outdoors.
I would spend a weekend down in New Orleans on Bourbon St.
I would travel to china and climb up to the shaoulin temple to observe the training the monks put themselves through
I would travel to china and climb up to a shaoulin temple in the mountains to see the training the monks put themselves through
I’d definitely take the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway! They also call the “toy train”. It’s a beautiful railway passage from Siliguri to West Bengal. I’ve been dreaming about this trip ever since I saw this song from a Hindi movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keKN2_R3IPw.
Manhattan with my wife and son.
I would take my wife to the Cayman Islands. Her dream is to go there someday.
The woods beginning at the end of my garden. They are after all lovely, dark and deep.
I would leave all my electronics at home and travel to Pensacola. I love the white sands, and would volunteer to help clean up the tar balls. Some day, I want to bring my yet to be born children there to play in the bay and catch hermit crabs like I have.
would take the wife to the republic of georgia to visit the young lady we hosted for a year thru the local exchange program
Between the people, landscape, and artchitecture, Norway is said to be the most beautiful place in the world. This would be the first place I’d spend some time if given the chance. The choice seems rather obvious to me.
Just a weekend? Head up to Canada with my girlfriend to take the Old Pacific Railroad from Vancouver, into Banff and see how far east the rails would take us before Monday came back around.
Mongolia!!!
Norway. Never been and I hear it’s beautiful.
I would go sailing on Lake Superior in the Apostle Islands.
Hiking in Yellowstone.
I would go to the Yucatan Peninsula and try to a part of the world before the oil spill takes its full effect on the region
would love a getaway weekend to show my 2 yr old the rainforest in Costa Rica or Brazil!
I would go all over the US visiting national parks and take it to Europe if I had the time left!
Wow, there are so many places that I’d go if money were no object. I’d take the wife back to Greece where we spent our honeymoon, I’d take her through the mountains, and back to Mykonos. I’d go fly-fishing in alaska/canada with my college buddies. I’d whitewater raft the grand canyon. Trek throught the jungles of Costa Rica, check out the Holy Land, the pryamids at Giza, go on Safari, and hike the pacific crest trail. But for now I’ll settle for the two week German vacation with my beautiful wife for our for our first anniversary.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
I would love to travel though eastern europe and the baltics!
I’d go to Italy for the weekend. I’ve never been, but I want to try the food there and see all the culture.
i’d fly in to Zurich, Switzerland, and then take the train/s to the remote and beautiful region of Appenzell.
I would go travel western europe.
I would most like to head to Europe, specifically Ireland’s west coast to sekk out some long-lost (or never known?) relatives. although, a set like this lends itself more to getting lost in the amazon or on a Hemingway-inspired getaway to Pamplona. I would be comforted to know that my bag was in one piece after just barely dodging the thunderous hooves of Espana.
Norwegian fjord hike and paddle.
A manly set like this suggests a manly destination (upland game bird hunting in Scotland perhaps) but also sophistication (touring and sampling famous Scotch whisky distillers)… so I can achieve both with a quick jaunt to Scotland!
The quiet white sand beaches of Eleuthera in a heartbeat.
Space. But, in case that’s cheating, Italy. To wander Roman Era ruins.
I would love to spend a while trekking around Europe! I’ve never been and would love to go!
Thanks for this opportunity!
entering for my coworker (he’s to manly to waste time figuring out these newfangled computers).
he would use the packs for his trips to any of his several mining claims throughout the state of idaho…doesn’t get much more manly than gold panning halfway up the back side of an abandoned mountain where there’s still 2 feet of snow in july and a smith and wesson is your best friend! campfire stew anyone?
I would travel through Western Europe.
Anywhere? I would take a week or two to show my sons the joys of backpacking in the Smokies.
I sure do want to win! I love Saddleback’s stuff. I really want to get back to visit Spain. I spent three weeks there about 7 years ago and it’s one of the greatest places on Earth. Saw a lot of the country, but never made it to the west side near Portugal. Can’t wait to go back and these items would have be traveling in style.
I’ve been telling my grandmother for a while now that I’m going to visit her in Pennsylvania. So if I win these bags, I’m definitely going to honor that!
Cross your fingers Gram! :-)
My weekend getaway would be to fly to Florence, Italy and visit the Ponte Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Giardino di Boboli, and The San Lorenzo Market. Since Tuscany is a food centric culture I would have to try fagioli all’uccelletto; trippa alla fiorentina; lampredotto; crostini toscani with liver paté and the unforgettable fiorentina all while staying at the Palazzo Magnani Feroni .
I am reading “Death in the Afternoon”, so I would probably go to Madrid to watch bull fights.
I’d travel to Rome…I went there once and want to go back!!
If I could go anywhere, I would go to Nepal to spend some time in some of the Buddhist monasteries.
I would travel to Spain or Italy. Live life like Hemingway did.
I’d use the packs to travel all over Europe, because I have yet to visit. I’d love to to to Germany, Belgiam, & Czech to try all the amazing beers.
Cartagena Colombia would be a rational distance to fly to for a weekend getaway.
I would love to visit Lausanne switzerland.
Tuscany
If I could travel anywhere in the world it’d be to Cincinnati, so that we could take our youngest son (15 months) to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He was born with an extremely rare condition called CLOVES Syndrome (http://www.clovessyndrome.org), which stands for Congenital Lipomatous (fatty) Overgrowth, Vascular
malformations, Epidermal nevi and Scoliosis/Skeletal/Spinal anomalies. It’s caused him to have several enlarged limbs, as well as large fatty deposits that could threaten his internal organs. He also has an incredibly large foot that has limited his mobility and motor development. There are less than 40 people worldwide with this condition. Needless to say, it’s very hard to find a single doctor who is well versed in this disease, let alone an entire team of doctors that can address all of the issues with CLOVES. For a full description of CLOVES go tohttp://www.clovessyndrome.org/CLOVES_syndrome_12-12-2009.pdf
Right now we’re struggling to pay our bills, and we’ve had issues with insurance refusing to pay for certain things. It’s been recommended to us that we take him to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital because they have a clinic that specializes in combined vascular deformities. However, it’s not certain when, if ever, we’ll be able to take him there. My wife is a special education teacher, and currently looking for a special education job so our income is limited. I don’t want to go anywhere far away, or fancy, or expensive. I just want to take my son to the specialists he need, so we can begin to figure out how we’re going to treat his disease.
While I’m sure I’d take these fantastic bags to a number of places over my lifetime (and my children, and their children’s lifetime)…I think that a trip to my guest bedroom would feel oh so adventurous with boot leather hanging over my shoulder!
Anywhere in California’s Sierra Nevada, probably Yosemite, but it would be hard to leave when the weekend is over.
Load a travel guide on my Kindle and head to Spain.
without using air travel i would make my way across the mediterranean, through turkey and all the way to mongolia. once in mongolia i would hike or ride my way across the plains fishing the whole width of the country, taking in the plains and its culture.
I would go to Devonshire England where my great grandad immigrated from nearly 100 years ago. I don’t know much about him so I’d spend the time tracking down his history. Who knows, maybe 100 years from now my grandkid will take the same trip with the same Saddleback bag.
I would take them bad boys with me to Alaska thus September when I head up there with my dad to go bear hunting. I would especially use the laptop sleeve to bring my laptop and write a story of the trip for AoM. Doesn’t get any manlier than that!
Anywhere in the world would have to be Hanalei, HI for a weekend of hiking and kayaking. Total relaxation with a workout added in. Now that we’re talking about it, maybe i’ll book it.
I’d head out for a middle of nowhere camping trip, perhaps with a buddy. In fact, I’m probably going to do that soon in the upper peninsula (of Michigan), but if I could go anywhere, I’d probably choose a more mountainous region.
I would spend the weekend in Northern California exploring the redwoods.
Take my husband to go snow skiing this winter in Whistler.
I would head straight to the medieval town of Assisi. I love Italy.
Spend time exploring Wales, Scotland, and England and enjoy the great outdoors.
I would save the weekend for July 7th. And fly to Pamplona, Spain for the running of the bulls. Then, in the tradition of “papa”, Ernest Hemmingway, I would spend the evening before in quiet contemplation, wake early on the seventh for the feast of San Fermin, don white clothing with a red sash and run with the bulls. Afterward, if not in the hospital, not having been unceremoniously run over by a bull, I woud regale the locals with tall tales while drinking great spanish wines and eating a great Spanish at a local cafe.. The bucket list lives on.. for a 53 year old.
New Zealand. I’d like to explore the mountains and sail the oceans all around this amazing set of islands.
I would head for a camping trip to Yosemite in California!
I would go to New Zealand if travel didn’t take up the whole weekend, Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia otherwise
I would use the overnight bag filled with the travel case, (as a dopp kit) and my laptop in the sleeve on my next trip to Hawaii at the beginning of the month. Since this giveaway also includes a passport I would feel obligated to us it. Therefore I would use all these items on my next trip to Abel Tasman National Park. I could even write about it with laptop!
I would go to New Zealand if travel didn’t take up the whole weekend, Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia otherwise
I would most likely camp in the mountains near Evergreen Colorado. But I’m afraid I might just stay if I did it.
I would definitely go to Norway and fjord it up.
I think I would head for Mount Kilimanjaro and gladly make my weekend longer.
The rain forests’ of Belize!
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