
If you are going away for awhile, you might want to call the post office and have them hold your mail. It’s a good idea to go through these steps to make sure your house is safe before you leave the country. When leaving the country, you don’t want people to know you are gone. Which brings us to another important thing to check on the list. We have been with people who have taken someone else’s luggage all the way to their hotel and didn’t notice it wasn’t theirs. Luggage wraps, colourful handle identifiers that can be velcroed to your handle or some people even tie yarn or ribbons to your luggage.
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Pro Tip – Make sure to put something to your luggage to make it easily identifiable. Plus, charter flights usually charge more for checked baggage, so we keep it light and save on the fees. It’s hot and the clothing we pack is lightweight and smaller than when we go to other destinations. We can usually get away with carry-on only luggage for the Caribbean. They are lightweight for small planes and can easily be pushed and packed into cargo area. But we can also stuff our layers into it easily. When having to get into small planes, we need a suitcase that is soft and easily packed.Ī duffel bag alone is too hard to carry through airports, so we choose a rolling duffel.

When going somewhere remote, usually pack a rolling duffel bag. If we are traveling Europe we usually pack a suitcase as we normally travel between cities by train or car and it is easy to use a rolling suitcase on sidewalks in Europe, Australia and US cities. We want to be mobile and have an easy time weaving through crowds.

If we are going to Southeast or Central Asia, we usually opt for a backpack as we’ll be hopping on different trains, boats and busses through more rugged terrain and rougher roads. And that choice starts with where are we going? The destination can make a difference in how we pack and what we pack our things in. Before we start packing we think about what we are going to carry everything in.
