Only 14.5 hours until our taxi comes to pick us up & whisk us away on the next stage of our LIP adventure. With the prospect of a 4-day fun & food-filled trip to NYC and then 3 glorious, sun-baked months in Grenada, here’s what we’re taking & how we’ve packed…
His & Hers Clothes
With the advantage of just having spent 2 months in Grenada, we know exactly what we need there. Despite having had to constantly restrain myself in the shops here in Nottingham we’ve been ultra realistic about the fact that we know we live in swimmies, shorts & t-shirts practically the whole time.
There’s a couple of ’smarter’ clothes shoved in there for our NYC trip but we’re being very sneaky and taking a separate small holdall which my brother will then take back to Dubai with him and keep it there all ready for our month in Dubai over Xmas & New Year. Our clothes are all packed up in 2 each of the fab Eagle Creek Pack-It Cubes.
…plus shoes
Add in a pair of comfy trainers that I’m travelling in and a pair of flip flops each and that’s it for shoes. Bit different from some of my past packing efforts with 6 pairs for a 10 day trip.
Clothes & shoes fully packed in one side…
Gadgets, wires, first aid kit, toiletries & other bits & bobs in the other…
And here’s how big the case looks next to J’s legs…(it’s titchy)
I’ll be adding our packing lists to the book (X Marks The Spot) with details of what we’ve learned are ‘must have’ items versus ‘nice to have’ items versus ‘think they’re vital but totally useless’ items…and including one tip which, if we’d learned earlier, would have saved us a couple of hundred pounds ($400).
Now that’s what i’d call a vacation. Anytime you have to pack for 3 months, it must take alot of planning.
Enjoy
William Masek
http://www.letsgotraveltheworld.com
Hi William,
Nice to hear from you…it does indeed take a bit of planning to pack for 3 months but really helps if you’re only taking a tiny suitcase and are restricted therefore in what you can actually carry!
I think it also helps if you’ve been to a place before (which we have with Grenada) and know exactly what you’re likely to need. As a LIP, you generally control what it is you do on a daily basis as you don’t need to go into an office to work, so if you don’t happen to have smart enough clothes to go to x restaurant, then you just don’t go…unless you’re prepared to buy more clothes whilst you travel.
As a natural scruffbag, I’m quite happy living in my swimsuit & shorts!
Lea