A Clear Backpack Is Ideal For The Beach

When clear backpacks started to proliferate a few years back, their primary purpose was security. More and more concerts and sporting events (not to mention schools) started to require clear backpacks to ensure that no one was sneaking any weapons into the facility. Some stadiums and arenas required them, others merely recommended them, all became easier to enter because of them.

Because COVID-19 put events of all sorts on hiatus, and turned school into a “virtual learning experience,” many clear backpacks sat at home, unused. This need not be the case.

Last week I took a trip to the beach for the first time in two years. I brought along my Expersion clear backpack, primarily because I needed the luggage space when packing. When it came time to journey down from the Airbnb to the beach on Day Two, I realized that the clear backpack would actually work much better for carrying things down than any tote I had.

Expersion clear backpacks with American flag patches can be bought on Amazon or on Walmart.

My Expersion backpack was the perfect size to fit a couple of towels, plus sunscreen, a book, a water bottle and a cigar.

It really proved its worth when it was time to head back—because the vinyl material is water-resistant, it was not soaked by the wet beach towels. And rinsing off the sand it had accumulated was the easiest thing in the world. This is in stark contrast to cloth tote bags, which always find a way to keep sand on them even after the long trip home.

Everybody knows the value of clear backpacks when it comes to security. Now I know that they can do so much more. They are so easy to clean, so easy to rid of sand and dirt, that I expect them to continue to increase in popularity in the years to come. I also foresee more clear bags of other shapes and sizes, and a clear tote explicitly designed for the beach seems especially likely.