If you think you will find the answer to that - How to Pack for a Year Abroad - I fooled you!!!😀 What a question! Even trickier, how to do it in 6 suitcases, with 2 kids and 3 instruments!
Well, actually though, I think we did pretty good. The majority of the work was in packing and cleaning up the ENTIRE house. I would not have been able to do it without many weeks off and the super duper help of my friend Joy. Together, (but Joy did WAY more than me) we cleaned every nook and surface around here from top to bottom! She rocked it out with me.
There were weeks of cleaning, packing, donating, cleaning, packing, donating, ...... etc until each room only had left in it what I hoped to pack. Then, it was more cleaning and sorting/prioritizing and packing up the things that I knew weren't reasonable or too important. We leave in about 12 hours, and I think we still have 2 last minute bins out and open so that we can throw in the remainder of things that we can't bring with us.
Overall, we rocked it! Got 3 bags packed last night each with every initial thing I wanted to put in them, so I had room to throw in some of the smaller, non-clothes items. I was definitely psyched on my success.:) They're pretty close to 45-50 lbs too! Not a bad start, though its the end that's the hard part. But I know we're gonna make it JUST by the skin of our teeth! No doubt we will be a sight to see heading out in the morning!
Well, actually though, I think we did pretty good. The majority of the work was in packing and cleaning up the ENTIRE house. I would not have been able to do it without many weeks off and the super duper help of my friend Joy. Together, (but Joy did WAY more than me) we cleaned every nook and surface around here from top to bottom! She rocked it out with me.
There were weeks of cleaning, packing, donating, cleaning, packing, donating, ...... etc until each room only had left in it what I hoped to pack. Then, it was more cleaning and sorting/prioritizing and packing up the things that I knew weren't reasonable or too important. We leave in about 12 hours, and I think we still have 2 last minute bins out and open so that we can throw in the remainder of things that we can't bring with us.
Overall, we rocked it! Got 3 bags packed last night each with every initial thing I wanted to put in them, so I had room to throw in some of the smaller, non-clothes items. I was definitely psyched on my success.:) They're pretty close to 45-50 lbs too! Not a bad start, though its the end that's the hard part. But I know we're gonna make it JUST by the skin of our teeth! No doubt we will be a sight to see heading out in the morning!
In the end, we made it, with one small (huge) problem -- our luggage got soaked in the downpours at our ATL layover! 6 suitcases with all of our stuff for the year WET! SOME of it is soaked, SOME partially, and SOME is untouched. I'm too afraid- and overwhelmed, to check it all. It's too big a pack job to undo, and we are catching a bus at 7 . Fingers crossed that it's ok🤞.
We'
ll be to Bocas by tomorrow at this time. Keep ya posted.
For now, this is the scene.....
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