{"id":5989,"date":"2011-12-27T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:28:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-27T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:36:17","slug":"patagonia-trave-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/patagonia-trave-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Patagonia Travel Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belts are boring, but essential tools. Outside of holding up pants their utility tends to be fairly limited. I own the previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tool-belt\/\">686 Tool Belt<\/a>, and find it useful from time to time, but decided I wanted something simpler for traveling. After reading about the benefits of nylon webbing, I picked up one of Patagonia&#8217;s Travel Belts. <\/p>\n<p>The Travel Belt, like the previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/cinch-belts\/\">Tech Web Belt<\/a>, is made up of nylon webbing that can be cut down to size and sealed with an open flame. Unlike standard webbing belts, the Travel Belt  has a long 19&#8243; x 1.5&#8243; zippered pocket sewn on the inside that can easily stash a folded copy of a passport, folded currency, and keys. The pocket is surprisingly lengthy and capacious that when filled is never uncomfortable or ungainly. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a paranoid traveller, but I do recognize that it&#8217;s possible to lose a wallet, or have a bag whisked away at an inopportune moment. The Travel Belt makes it very unlikely that I&#8217;ll lose everything. On a recent trip to Bangladesh, I kept a folded copy of my partner&#8217;s and my passport, $20 in local currency, and an apartment key in the hidden pocket. Luckily, we never had need of the belt&#8217;s contents, but the security of knowing we wouldn&#8217;t be without bus fare home was comforting.<\/p>\n<p>I would wager that it&#8217;s impossible to tell from the outside that the belt contains a pocket which should be a deterrent for any potential thieves (I also believe it very unlikely that any assailant would check). I hope to never find out, and in the mean time remain impressed with the added utility provided by the Travel Belt.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pocketed belt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}