Packing Preparations - The First Pass

We have read many long-term travel books and blogs and noticed that each recommends packing light.  Following is one approach we found particularly interesting:

1. Lay out everything you'd like to take with you.
2. Remove half of the items.
3. Remove another half of the remaining items - Performing all three steps should leave you with what you actually need.

To put this process to the test we have fulfilled step 1 by laying out everything we would like to take.  The above image shows that we have quite a bit of streamlining yet to do to move through step 2.

We will let you know how the process progresses as we continue to pare down our packables.