The Carry-On Edit

Current status: sitting at the airport, not even boarded yet, and we’ve already had our first travel emergency of the Spain trip.

Somewhere between check-in, terminal hopping, and getting settled before the flight, my husband’s backpack decided it was done participating in this vacation.

The zipper split.
The seam ripped open.
And suddenly one of our most important carry-ons was hanging on by a thread… literally.

For a minute, we thought we were about to spend the entire trip trying to replace a backpack in another country because none of the airport stores had one large enough for what he carries.

But after a little panic and a lot of problem solving, we pulled together:
✔️ a tiny sewing kit
✔️ dental floss
✔️ patience
✔️ airport survival instincts

And somehow… it worked.

Turns out dental floss is basically industrial-strength thread when you’re in a travel emergency.

Right there in the airport, we patched the bag together well enough to survive the trip — at least until we can properly replace it later.

Not exactly the glamorous “Europe travel content” I imagined posting today, but honestly this is the real side of travel no one talks about.

Sometimes luxury travel is rooftop dinners in Spain.
Sometimes it’s emergency backpack surgery at the airport gate.

Either way… Spain, we’re coming for you 🇪🇸✨