Each voyager is limited to a maximum of
· Two large rolling duffels
· One rollaboard suitcase (airline carryon)
· One small day pack or personal item
That’s not a lot of bags for four months!
But wait -- you only have two hands! If you bring the max allowable luggage, how are you going to cross a busy street in Bangkok in sweltering heat with brutal jet lag? Seriously, I strongly recommend that you only bring ONE rolling duffel, one rollaboard, and a day pack.
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| Too much luggage! |
Think of three uses for your luggage:
Rolling Duffel: Getting to Bangkok and then getting home from Bremerhaven. The rest of the voyage it just sits unused under your bed.
Rollaboard: Multiday trips in countries, possibly on airplanes. Otherwise under your bed.
Daypack: Everything else. Day trips, overnights, beach days, etc.
You’re going to check your big bag from Colorado to Thailand and carry your small bags on the planes. But it’s a royal pain to have those big bags with you. It makes it hard to tourist around in both Thailand in January and Europe in April. You can pay (a LOT) to ship your big bag home from the ship in Germany. This frees you up to travel on your own before you return home.
Remember that you’re leaving Colorado at Christmastime, so you’ll be wearing warm clothes to the airport. But that’s the very last time you’ll need them! When you walk out of the airport in Thailand it’s going to be HOT. And then Vietnam, Malayasia, India, Africa. It’s going to be super hot and humid for months.
Draft Packing list:
◦ Clothes for hot weather
◦ Wind/Waterproof gloves, hats, umbrella
◦ Rain/wind pants
◦ Quick dry clothing!
◦ Hiking boots
◦ Comfortable walking shoes
◦ Keen sandals
◦ Hanging cubbies inside bathroom door
◦ Chargers, adapters, cables
◦ Cameras & accessories
◦ Bug repellent
◦ Sunscreen (coral reef safe)
◦ First aid kit
◦ Swimsuits & beach towels
◦ Currency for different countries?
◦ Kleenex
◦ Toiletries – consider bars not bottles
◦ Medicine
◦ Small flashlight
◦ Water bottles
◦ Metal coffee mugs
◦ Sunglasses
◦ Kindle and/or tablet
◦ Laptop
◦ Binoculars
◦ Movies on your laptop or tablet
◦ Hair ties
◦ Hats of several kinds (rain, sun, snow)
◦ Snorkeling gear
◦ USB powered fans
◦ Clothes for fancy dinner & the “Alumni Ball”
◦ Phone wallets
◦ Battery packs
◦ Sharpies
◦ Strong! magnets for sticking stuff to your cabin door
◦ Door decorations
◦ Spices & hot sauce (ship food is bland)
◦ Snacks
◦ Herbal tea
◦ Ground coffee
◦ French press coffee maker
Oh my God, that’s a LOT! How is that all going to fit in luggage you can drag across a busy street? Good question!
What you really want is lots of shorts and airy tops and sandals.
When we get to Europe in April, it will be shockingly cold after so many months in the sweltering heat. You can dig your warm stuff out from under the bed and take an Uber to a mall in Spain to buy a sweater or warm hat.
What NOT to Pack
- · Too many warm clothes
- · Too much tea
- · Too many mugs and cups
- · Water filtration pitcher
- · More shampoo and toiletries than you need
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| Packed for home at the end of the voyage |