Traveling Light: What’s In Your Suitcase?

follow url I remember the day we first landed in South East Asia and took the bus from Phuket to Krabi, Thailand. From there we had to take a songthaew (local transportation) into Krabi Town where we had fore-planned on staying for a while.

https://boxfanexpo.com/cmsovcc It was so awkward stuffing our 2 gigantic suitcases in the back as they alone were occupying at least 4 seating areas themselves, not even including the 2 stuffed carry on bags we had with us.

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https://www.parolacce.org/2024/09/18/pnox8dtwqiu It really was an awful lot of luggage to be dragging around but our excuse was “we’re not vacationing, we are moving here for a year!”

https://www.fandangotrading.com/tyrphbpcv5h This meant we had brought along all kinds of luxuries we thought we could not live without. For me this was computer supplies, like a big fancy modem, hard drives, cords, etc. For Regina… well she brought half of her baking supplies along.

https://ragadamed.com.br/2024/09/18/yjtzzszq A long story short and many beach visits later, we started to get restless and were ready to move on after only 8 months in Krabi Town. Our next destination was Penang, Malaysia. We had scouted Penang out on one of our visa runs and decided it would be a great place to settle down for a bit.

follow link We booked a minivan ticket from Krabi town and got up super early to catch it. They came by to pick us up, but when they saw our gigantic suitcases, they refused to take us. This was extremely frustrating.

https://luisfernandocastro.com/dcwj1y9g So we had to go get a refund from that company and then book with another company. This time we paid for 4 seats just to make sure they would take us. Looking back, this all turned out for the better because we ended up with a much nicer van than we would have gotten in the first place… oh and, we got the entire back-seat to ourselves.

https://technocretetrading.com/cbqk1enf96 That alone was worth the extra $30 USD we paid for that 4 hour journey.

https://semnul.com/creative-mathematics/?p=rbapzaskkv As soon as we got to the border, it meant we had to drag our luggage up a few sets of stairs to put it through a luggage scanner. And this is where I first became comfortable with border officers… probably as a direct result of me having to burst out laughing in front of them.

source site go Here is what happened: They backed up Regina’s suitcase a time or two (in the scanner) just to get a second look at it. The officer asks her to step aside and open the overflowing suitcase. So she did.

go here Once opened, he starts going through it, taking things out – one at a time. He pulls out Regina’s precision scale. She used it to measure ingredients to a milligram. I suppose a super handy resource if you are a professional baker (or a cocaine breaker).

https://vbmotorworld.com/5wa6xsd20i The officer looked it over and over and finally puts it down. I thought it was kind of awkward, until he pulls out a bag of powdered/icing sugar. In case you did not know, it is white and powdery like flour (or cocaine).

watch This is where I started to connect the dots and realized they had seen the bag of white powder in the suitcase, and then decided to check it out – probably thinking it COULD be a narcotic (for the record: smuggling drugs into Malaysia warrants the death penalty – it’s a very serious crime if caught). Hence his utmost curiosity when he stumbled across the precision scale. At this point I could not help myself and burst out laughing out loud.

https://everitte.org/5irk09yo I told Regina “I’m starting to see what this looks like!”

follow The officer quickly realized that this was an honest misunderstanding and wished us a good day. Phew!

source link It very quickly became evident that the most frustrating part about “moving” for us was our luggage. This is when we decided to throw out what we didn’t use (like extra pairs of shoes, worn out clothes, etc) or donate what was still in good condition to a local charity in Penang. As Regina noted here, we downsized from HUGE suitcases plus carry-on duffel bags to one small carry-on suitcase each.

https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/el8z51fp1 It has been interesting journey ever since!

Buy Diazepam India We barely buy anything we can’t consume, and if we do, we carefully decide before hand what we will sacrifice in it’s place. After all, there is only so much room in a small carry on.

https://everitte.org/090eqm9 It might sound limiting, but it is freeing in every sense of the word. I would have never understood this when we first started traveling 2 years ago, but I would not trade it for the world.

see url Carry-on only has become our preferred way of traveling!

https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/5cypmcpb go to site If you are curious to learn all the tips and tricks you’ll need to know for packing light and traveling with just carry-on luggage you need to check out The Carry-On Traveler (written by Erin McNeaney of the Never Ending Voyage blog).

https://marcosgerente.com.br/wbou32le Every now and again we see some travelers just starting out and – they make our start look good. They’re dragging all this luggage with them and – though it’s not our job to judge them – we secretly can’t help but wish them the breakthrough moment we both had. The moment where we realized “hey, we really don’t need all this!”

https://ragadamed.com.br/2024/09/18/xcab8irwqr8 Here is a short speech from the movie “Up in the Air” that forever haunted me when I first watched it a few years ago. I could have never imagined living with a similar philosophy back then – yet here I am.

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https://technocretetrading.com/k6xlg0vbj7z So what do we all have in our suitcases? I will be covering that in a followup post. I think you will be surprised 🙂