We recently purchased the Mesa XL and traveled from the East Coast to Alaska, USA and Yukon, Canada for a camping road-trip vacation. The Mesa XL can fit in its box in a bookbag for airline's "personal item" bag size and easily slides under your seat. TSA requires that the stove be clean of debris, but security made no comment to us about the stove in any of our security checks. We were then able to use the stove in campsite fire rings and on our picnic tables at every campground we visited. We had also purchased the heat deflector, and we packed it in our luggage. It too would have fit in a bookbag in its box, but we wanted to save space and didn't want it to be damaged. The Mesa XL kept us warm in 40 degree weather, and we didn't have to worry about purchasing expensive camp wood because we could just pick up small sticks off the ground at every camp site and a small pile of sticks would last for several hours. The cherry on top was the fact that our fires were smokeless, and so we didn't spend our trip smelling like campfire! The stove then wiped up easily for our flights home. I highly recommend the Mesa XL! It's so nice to have a stove for use at home or for camping when you don't want to go to the trouble (and expense) of starting a large smokey camp fire and then waiting for it to burn out and be dosed safely hours later. Want a fire that will keep your family toasty for just an hour; then this is your product! Want a fire that will last all day; the Mesa XL can do that too! Thanks for creating this fun take-and-go smokeless stove!
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