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Resources for travellers

Travel Guides

Our favorite tips and checklists; from how to pack to insurance information.

Expertise From Members

  • Ultimate Packing Guide

    What we learned about packing for international trips from 50+ Canadians.

    Read the Packing Guide
  • Collective Toolkit

    What Canadians actually carry, use, and rely on when travelling – and the one thing nearly everyone gets wrong.

    Get the Toolkit
  • Packing for Complex Trips

    Packing for multiple climates: Our best tips for multi-stop itineraries.

    Packing paradox tips

How We Travel

  • The Wheel & Anchor Way

    A collective commitment to ensuring meaningful, enriching, and responsible journeys together.

    Download The Way
  • The Traveller's Creed

    Our shared compass of seven guiding principles that shape how we navigate the world.

    Read The Traveller's Creed
  • Our Expectations

    We wrote a light-hearted guide on what kinds of behaviors will remove your welcome from future trips.

    What Not To Do

Getting Ready To Go

  • Travel Insurance

    Although we can't give specific policy advice, we have rounded up some key tips on travel insurance and how to make sure you have enough coverage.

    Travel Insurance
  • Departure Checklist

    A companion to The Toolkit, the Toolkit Checklist is a download that you can print and physically check things off as you go through them. Start this one month out.

    View Checklist
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