Vacation Travel
Packing Lists

Planning Your Trip

Packing for a vacation to a place you haven't been can be challenging. What should you bring? What should you leave at home? Will you really need that raincoat?

We share our packing lists for places we've been to and list the items we were really glad we brought.

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Universal Packing List

This packing list contains stuff we bring on just about every trip.

A carry-on shoulder bag contains:

• passport
• hotel reservations
• car reservations
• flight itinerary
• photocopies of important documents, license and credit cards
• top 10 travel guide or print outs about where we are headed
• Moleskine notebook
• 4 color Pen
• wicked tiny flashlight
• chapstick
• hand sanitizer
• tissues (toilet paper)
• inflatable neck pillow
• handkerchief
• face cloth
• couple of protein bars or trail mix

Toiletry bag from LL Bean contains:

• electric razor and charger
• toothbrush
• toothpaste (trial size)
• floss
• earplugs
• glasses
• spare contacts
• shampoo
• soap
• contact solution (trial size)
• contact case
• vitamins
• extra large condoms
• sunscreen (trial size)
• nail clippers
• tweezers
• small plastic mirror
• Q tips

Electronic Gear (all in a gallon ziplock)

• compact camera
• 2 spare batteries for compact camera
• compact camera charger
• 4 4gb memory cards
• backup (old) compact camera
• backup camera spare battery
• backup camera charger
• wind-up solar am fm weather radio flashlight cellphone charger
• travel alarm clock
• iPod
• headphones
• iPod charger
• Gorillapod
• headphone adapter for old airplanes

First Aid & Miscellaneous Items (all in a gallon ziplock)

• small first aid kit (bandaids, moleskin, neosporin, aspirin, pepto, laxatives, space blankets, water purification tablets)
• binder clips – handy for keeping curtains closed, holding papers and tickets together
• compass – Are we heading in the right direction? how do we get back?
• clothesline and a tiny bottle of detergent – if you have a sink you can do some laundry
• extra shoelaces
• extra velcro straps
• small s-biners
• my old swiss army knife and or leatherman (if we check our bags)
• good luck charm (optional)