Preparing for a trip and looking to try out carry on packing? Or are you dreading traveling with baby and all the stuff you’ll need to bring? Whatever your reason for looking into minimalist travel and packing tips, you’re in the right place. This collection of posts includes detailed packing lists for vacation, including guides for traveling with just a carry-on – even internationally – and traveling with babies and toddlers without dragging the entire nursery with you. I used to be a hopeless over-packer. But years of frequent travel transformed me into a carry-on only traveler. After becoming a mom, I had to relearn how to travel light with a baby and then a toddler. The posts below…
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If you’re preparing for an international trip, you might assume that you need to check a bag. There’s all kinds of stuff you need to bring with you when you’re flying overseas, right? I used to feel that way, too. But it’s not true. Your packing list for international travel doesn’t have to be that much different from your list for a domestic trip. I’ve written before about how, through the process of traveling to 45 countries and taking hundreds of flights, I managed to transform from a chronic over-packer to a carry-on-only traveler. In that post, I shared a generic one-week vacation packing list. Here, I’d like to focus on international travel specifically, since there are a few extras you’ll need to consider when packing. But there are also a lot…
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So, you’re planning on traveling with a newborn. It’s an intimidating task to plan, especially if this is your first kid. But it’s actually not that scary if you’re prepared with a bit of knowledge and some newborn travel essentials. In fact, I recommend traveling while your baby is still in the newborn phase, because it actually gets harder when they’re a bit older – moving more and sleeping less. I’ve shared in a previous post some tips for traveling light with a baby. The focus of that post was keeping the products you’re packing to a minimum. Newborns require a lot. If you don’t know which products are truly essential, you can end up weighed down by tons of baggage for even a short trip. So, what are the newborn travel essentials that…
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I’ve written before about my journey from compulsive over-packer to a carry-on only international traveler. If you often end up with an overweight suitcase, frantically transferring things from one bag to another at the airport, this post is for you. First, I’ll explain how to approach packing for carry-on only travel and then I’ll provide a full one-week packing list for vacation. I changed my whole approach toward packing almost a decade ago (read this post for guidance on how to do that). Instead of trying to maximize how much an airline will allow me to bring onboard, I travel internationally with just a carry-on suitcase and a light backpack.…
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I’ve traveled a lot in my life. It’s a hobby I love, and I’ve visited 45 countries so far. I spent a good portion of my 20s on planes, for work and for fun. For most of that time, I had no idea how to travel light. I aimed to make my checked luggage exactly 50 lbs, maximizing what I could bring while avoiding fees. On top of that, I’d bring a heavy carry-on and a large backpack on the plane – stretching airlines’ definition of “personal item” to the limit. I mentioned in my minimalism story that when I arrived in country with the Peace Corps, with my maximum…
