WHY TOL?

Temporarily On Leave is a lifestyle built on contradiction — at once refined and rugged, polished and worn-in, timeless and untethered. It's for those who move through the world with intention but leave room for detours. Who live between extremes — between long dusty roads and candlelit lounges, between the roar of a twin-engine plane and the silence of a mountain pass.

We craft clothing and gear for the modern nomad — the kind of person who could be train-hopping through the desert one day and blending in at a Monte Carlo martini bar the next. Nothing flashy. Everything earned.

Our pieces are more than products — they’re stories in fabric and leather. They carry the scent of salt air, diesel fuel, and old whiskey. They ask questions without speaking:
Where have you been? What did you lose there? What did you find?

To wear Temporarily On Leave is to say, “I’ve lived.”
That you’ve been close to death, love, chaos, and clarity — and you’re still searching. That you value loyalty over convenience. Grit over glamour. Presence over perfection.

You hold your secrets like a deck of cards, close to your chest. You’ve known both solitude and brotherhood. You’ve walked out of rooms most people never dare enter. And yet, you're always ready to drop everything and follow the next strange wind. To go off-map. To disappear — and reappear, different.

This brand is for those who don’t ask permission to leave, and don’t feel the need to explain why.
Because freedom isn’t the absence of responsibility — it’s the presence of choice.

And if you're Temporarily On Leave, you're exactly where you’re meant to be.

 

 

 

FOUNDER: Dustin Coury, spent most of his childhood traveling. He lived in 7 states and 3 countries by the time he was 18. Heavily inspired by his mother, an avid camper with a minimalist lifestyle, Coury found better ways to travel with each move and every new adventure. As an adult, his life has revolved around adventure; rebuilding and living on a sailboat, backpacking trips through the U.S.A., searching for untapped surf spots along barren coasts, and becoming a pilot to fly through the backcountry of the American west are the highlights.

Temporarily On Leave was an inevitable path.

THE START: One backpacking trip into the Sierra Mountains dramatically changed the course of Dustin’s life for the best. What was intended as a sun filled fishing trip turned into a battle for mortality as 5 friends went head-to-head against a freak blizzard while scaling a mountain in the middle of the night. On that mountain, under life or death conditions, the first TOL bag was conceptualized and Dustin spent the next 3 years prototyping in his living room; learning to sew, giving versions to friends for feedback, making adjustments, and giving it to more friends for more feedback. After many revisions Dustin had a bag innovative enough for a patent, and with the help of a lawyer acquired a utility patent on the bag. After more than a hundred versions were tested over thousands of miles of adventures, we are now ready to publicly launch with our hero bag, The Great Divide.