Farpoint 55

The Farpoint is a travel pack. It is absolutely the wrong type of backpack for the Camino. I strongly advise against using it. Go with the Kestrel or explore other backpacks made for camping while walking distances ie backpacking backpacks. Look at the Osprey Exos 38 or something else by Osprey or G

This is a terrible bag to use as a hold bag. Unless you had a way of securing the handles, I could see these getting trapped within the conveyor belt system, which is probably what happened, I traveled on Ryanair to Pisa from Stansted return. I used an Osprey Farpoint backpack. Even though there is

What would be overkill and how, exactly? I travel with a 28-liter hiking backpack because I haven't yet found a travel backpack which would be even half as comfortable. I have also taken 2 trips to Japan which would be very similar to what this dude is planning with 2 different backpacks. The hiking

I think to some degree you are expecting too much from a single bag setup with all of those possibilities. Overall my comments would be: Osprey Farpoint 40 (presumably that's the bag you mean?) is an excellent all rounder bag for travel. Realistically its most notable downside is that it is too big

I'm doing my first night of primitive camping next week. It's just a 3-mile hike from trailhead (car parking) to the campsite. It's in Florida, and the forecast is a sunny high of 80 and low of 58. It's a flat hike, with some cell service. Overall, a perfect setting for a first time primitive camper