Just doing some list making (trip isn't until Sept) because when I remember something I know it will be lost in all the other good ideas.
One of the ideas that popped up was this:
After all the traveling, what do you know know what to pack or handle your "stuff" that you didn't know on the earlier trips?
( I already know take less clothes and twice the money).
I will kick it off:
I have figured out how to put some alcoholic beverages in small plastic containers (in ziplock to prevent spills) in check in luggage to be able to enjoy a room drink for at least the first night and this year I will add the mini wine bottles.
I carry Sink-size Tide detergent so I can wash out the undies in the room and hang them up to dry. This way I can take 1/2 of what I would if I took for every day.
I also have a couple packages of single use machine detergent and a bunch of quarters in my purse,then about midweek I run to laundromat and wash, especially the outfit I traveled in the first day and just wear it on the return trip.
Finally I take a travel size Downy wrinkle release, so when the clothes come out of the suitcase (and vacuum bags) I can let the wrinkles fall out.
Input?
"At some point in life you have to decide if you're the Tigger or the Eeyore."...Randy Pausch
"George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again." Walt Disney