One terrible night in Bangkok.
It was 3am in Bangkok. We'd run out of paracetamol, a phone charger, and optimism. We'd been travelling for two weeks, Thailand, then across to Bali, back through Singapore, and somewhere between airport seven and airport eight, we'd had enough of bad travel gear.
We'd started the trip with too much. Ended it with exactly what we needed. The stuff that worked was small, lightweight, thoughtful. The stuff that didn't was in a bin in Chiang Mai. That flight home was spent writing a list, not the marketing version, the real version. What you actually reach for at 3am. What saves the day at immigration. What turns a red-eye into something almost bearable.
Back home in Lincoln, we built the first version on a kitchen table. Tested it across Europe, Rome, Amsterdam, Lisbon. Then America, New York, LA, a road trip through the South. Every trip taught us something. The kit got lighter, the thinking got sharper, the obsession grew worse.
GO PAC launched in 2023. We now ship to over 40 countries, write every insert card by hand, and test every product before it goes anywhere near a kit. If we think it's naff, it doesn't make the cut. We're not a shop, we're travellers who happen to sell things.
✈ Bangkok, where it started
✈ Bali
✈ Rome