About Rex Boardman

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Meet Rex Boardman

20+ YEARS ON THE ROAD · TECH INDUSTRY · ELITE STATUS · DFW BASED · FAMILY MAN
“I’ve logged over two decades of business travel — domestic sprints, international marathons, red-eyes, middle seats, missed connections, and more hotel rooms than I can count. I built this site because I got tired of reading gear reviews written by people who clearly never dragged a bag through three airports in one day.”
20+
YEARS TRAVELING
1–2x
TRIPS PER MONTH
Multi
ELITE AIRLINE STATUS
$0
PAID ENDORSEMENTS
The Rex Boardman Story
Rex Boardman has spent the better part of twenty years crisscrossing the country — and the globe — for work in the technology industry. What started as an occasional business trip evolved into a lifestyle: one to two trips per month, a mix of domestic and international, elite status on multiple airlines, and an encyclopedic knowledge of which airport lounges are actually worth it.
Based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Rex has launched from DFW more times than he can count — connecting through hubs, jumping time zones, and navigating everything from Tokyo to Toronto, Frankfurt to Fort Lauderdale. Along the way he’s bought a lot of gear. Some of it was outstanding. A lot of it was garbage. LayoverGear.com exists to help you skip straight to the good stuff.
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DFW Home Base
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Domestic & International
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Tech Industry
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Multi-Airline Elite
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TSA PreCheck & Global Entry
What Rex Actually Reviews
After two decades on the road, Rex has strong opinions about everything that touches a business trip. He reviews gear the way a road warrior actually evaluates it — not in an unboxing video, but after six months of real use across a dozen trips.
The LayoverGear Review Categories
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Luggage & Bags — carry-ons, backpacks, packing cubes. What actually fits in the overhead bin and survives the carousel.
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Tech & Connectivity — eSIMs, power banks, noise-canceling headphones, travel routers, and the apps worth paying for.
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Security & Safety — including gear Rex buys for his family when they travel — locks, trackers, RFID wallets, and personal safety tools.
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Sleep & Comfort — because arriving rested is a competitive advantage. Travel pillows, eye masks, and everything that actually works on a long-haul flight.
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Hotel & Lounge Hacks — the gear and memberships that make time between flights actually productive.
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Wrinkle-Free & Packable Clothing — because showing up to a client meeting looking like you slept in your bag is not an option.
Travel Is a Family Value Updated
🏠 The Road Warrior Who Actually Loves to Travel
Rex doesn’t just travel for work — travel is woven into the fabric of his family’s life. Every year the Boardmans take at least one full family vacation and one couples trip, just Rex and his wife. Travel isn’t something that happens to them. It’s something they choose, plan, and look forward to together.
That means Rex evaluates gear across every possible travel scenario — brutal work sprints through three airports in a single day, chaotic family adventures with kids in tow, and romantic getaways that call for an entirely different kind of packing list. When he recommends something on this site, it’s been tested in all three contexts. That’s a perspective you won’t find on most travel gear blogs.
It also means LayoverGear covers the full spectrum of what real travelers actually need:
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Work Travel
Optimized for speed, efficiency, and arriving ready to perform
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Family Vacations
Tested with real kids on real trips — gear that survives the chaos
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Couples Getaways
Lighter, smarter packing for trips that actually help you disconnect
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Women’s Travel Safety
Gear Rex personally researches and buys for his wife — no compromises
The Rex Boardman Standard
“I don’t review gear I got for free. I review gear I bought with my own money because I needed it to work. If it failed me at 6am in a foreign airport with a dead phone and a 7am meeting, you’ll know about it. If it’s been in my bag for three years and still performs perfectly, you’ll know about that too.”
Why LayoverGear?
There’s no shortage of travel gear content on the internet. Most of it is written by bloggers who took one trip to Cancun and suddenly became experts. Rex Boardman is not that guy.
LayoverGear.com is built on two decades of real road warrior experience — the kind you only get from actually living this lifestyle, month after month, year after year. Every recommendation comes from genuine use, genuine money spent, and genuine opinions. No fluff. No filler. No gear that didn’t earn its spot in the bag.
Ready to Travel Smarter?
Browse reviews from someone who’s been doing this for twenty years and still cares enough to get it right.
— Rex Boardman
FOUNDER · LAYOVERGEAR.COM · DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TEXAS
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