How to pack for a long term trip
WHAT TO PACK FOR LONG TERM TRAVEL IN 2023 (CARRY-ON ONLY) - Must Have Items + Tutorial and Tips
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we've started our year of travel with
just what we're carrying in this video
we are going to show you everything
we've brought for a year of travel with
just carry on
we're keith and dev our goal is to make
the most of each day with adventures big
and small in 2021 we explored canada
from ontario all the way to vancouver
and this year we flew to europe
subscribe to follow along we're gonna go
through all our stuff by categories so
those categories are gonna be clothing
toiletries electronics miscellaneous
must-haves and then at the end we are
both gonna pick one item and tell you
why we think it's so important to bring
on this trip let's get to it
so here's all of our stuff
this is everything we've brought for our
one year of travel everything is on this
bed everything we own here or on us
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so we are gonna get started with the
clothes we brought clothes first
we're going to start with what i bought
clothing-wise starting with my shoes so
i have tevas running shoes and
birkenstocks all of which i've worn a
lot already on our trip and they are the
perfect shoes for me i have a rain
jacket and a hat for when it's sunny and
now in terms of clothes starting with
the basics i brought 14 pairs of
underwear all of which are quick dry and
really small that's why i could fit so
many four sports bras two bra legs eight
pairs of socks but i've already lost one
so i'm down to seven pairs of socks but
again all merino wool
really great socks and then two bathing
suits
like this
and now to the fun part the rest of my
clothes and you're gonna get to see all
of it i brought four pairs of pants
starting with leggings
joggers
comfy pants
and a pair of active lightweight pants
that have some color and now for shorts
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i brought five pairs of shorts one pair
of active shorts
three pairs of spandex one
two and three i also brought a pair of
jean shorts which keith was like you're
bringing denim and i was like yeah and
guess what i wear these all the time
definitely a must for me so next moving
on to shirts i brought seven tank tops
one
two
three
four
five
six
and seven i also brought four t-shirts
one
two
three
and four
i also brought one long sleeve
this is also a merino wool shirt so it
dries really quick and it's really warm
and speaking of warmth i also brought
one comfy sweater
an athletic sweater
a button up and a down jacket
this is definitely a lifesaver a
must-have for any temperature i also
brought some fancy outfits so i'll show
you those now
i brought a nice long skirt
a beach dress
and
one more just fancy nice walk around
town dress
now back to my original clothes
i can honestly say we've been traveling
for about two and a half weeks only and
i have worn every single one of my
clothing items because i'm my rain
jacket which i think is a good thing now
off to keith's clothes this is all my
clothes i have two jackets eight pairs
of underwear nine pairs of socks seven
bottoms i lost one so i have six eleven
tops two pairs of shoes morning shoes
and
sandals let's show you the outfits these
are my nine socks
three pairs of long socks really warm
merino wool lightly less warm renal wool
perfect for travel and then sort of long
comfortable socks that are cooler
smaller pairs of socks two no-shows from
little lemon that are really good for
active sports three of these ice breaker
and darn tough ankle socks they last a
long time don't need to be washed as
much and a pair of darn tough hiking
socks that are super comfortable to have
a lot of cushioning you probably want to
see all my underwear but like i said i
have eight pairs and they're mainly
active quick drying like saks and puma
out of the seven bottoms i have two pair
of long pants these comfortable joggers
and these are my everyday pants that i
can dress up and dress down and i have
five pairs of shorts
these are my everyday dress up and dress
down shorts
some regular athletic shorts
and these lined athletic shorts that i
wear for basically everything we do
outside
and these are my everyday lounge shorts
i gotta say these are the pants or the
shorts that i wear the most by far
now let's move on to my shirts this is
my long sleeve merino shirt that i wear
a lot but it's getting a little warm so
i'm gonna change into one of my five
t-shirts
one
two yes it's the same shirt i have two
black shirts but these are really nice
and they're quick dry
three
four
five now onto my button-ups
this is my short sleeve button up i
gotta say having one of these is ideal
this merino wool button up
and this nice dress shirt that i can
wear casually and also pretty fancy i
used to wear this for work actually last
two articles
this comfy patagonia hoodie
and this burton hoodie that's perfect
it's also made of polyester only so it
dries super fast
now i said the last two articles but
that was solely of tops there's still a
couple more things i want to show you
my down jacket it's a must-have for all
weather conditions there's also our
raincoats which gladly we haven't used
yet
there's also a couple more things i
haven't shown you yet such as my long
jones but you don't want to see me
wearing those my buff from outrun thanks
phil
some gloves for that cold weather and
some elastic bands to hold that big
burton hoodie together because it's big
when you pack it down oh and my hat
and that wraps it up next up is our
toiletries so here's our toiletry breaks
now give me one sec while i unpack them
so this is all of our toiletries slash
liquids because we keep it all together
for when we go on airplanes it's easy
access starting on this side we have our
toothbrushes toothpaste keith's
deodorant retainer nail clippers his
shaver for manscaping he likes to call
it for his chest and facial hair some
razors in case he wants to fully shave
our sunscreen super important use this
every day this especially has been so
helpful for our face and our chest and
our necks and stuff then we have our
laundry area these little tabs
so cool you put two in your laundry and
there it is that's your laundry soap we
also this one is like just in case or if
we have to do laundry in the sink
pocket shampoo same kind of deal you
take one out rub it into your hair you
got shampoo and then up here we have
some of keith's liquids so we got
moisturizer rubbing alcohol aftershave
zinc and pomade for your hair a bit of
our first aid kits here so polysporin
which is really helpful if you get a cut
or that and i guess it's hard to find
hand sanitizer we keep this on us when
we go places but it's in our liquid area
super helpful super important and then
moving to this side more my stuff we
have some mascara and eyeliner which
honestly i haven't used yet but just in
case we want to get fancy tweezers my
night moisturizer a little cover up my
razor some lip therapy these are keith
and eyes lip balms half of it has
sunscreen in it that we'll use during
the day because we don't want to get our
lips numbered and the other half is just
to keep them moist deodorant hydrogen
cortisone cream really helpful i have
really sensitive skin so this is also my
special cream cyto eczema and then we
have some vitamin e cream and then in
here we have conditioner and face
moisturizer because you can only bring
100 liter containers so these have been
really helpful in us bringing our stuff
around and so far haven't run out also
keith's soap and that is our toiletries
as you can probably tell we are now
moving on to technology we're going to
go into detail of what we brought but
again we probably brought a bit more
electronics than most people because we
are filming
as we travel so we'll start over here
with our drone setup we have a dji mini
which means that you don't need a permit
to fly places we've got some sd cards a
filter for a camera we have keith's
computer his charger we have these two
anchor batteries which are awesome for
charging our phone the gopro our camera
batteries pretty much everything but our
computers so they are primed to have
when you're on the road and don't have a
plug
this has been amazing we have this
little compartment which i'm not gonna
really open it for you guys because it
just has a bunch of cords but it just
ties up
like this and it is where we keep all of
our charging cords so we have our
charging cords for our gopro for the
drones for our phones for literally our
airpods anything you can imagine we have
the cords for it in here so that's
really helpful plus the extra drone
stuff in case something breaks not come
back and extra earphones um for like on
the plane or that in case for air pods
the airpods don't work we have two pairs
of air pods which we actually bought
just for this trip and oh my god they
are life-changing we love them so much
so that's a little tip we have my
computer the hard drive which has all of
our videos film pictures everything on
it so it's it's our baby
our two cell phones gopro
we have our battery charger we have one
battery plus the battery you're using
because somehow on the flight literally
leaving toronto we lost two batteries so
we used that f4 and now we have two but
what can you do charger for the computer
this is really awesome
this port has a bunch of usb so you can
plug things in and it literally has
every single country so you just
click it and pull it out
and then it plugs into the american and
canadian outlet
and it just clicks back in for all the
countries and then we have this we
actually didn't use this very much but
just in case we need multiple plugs it
just goes right right there
we each both have a little one which has
been super handy my computer charger and
then we have this we literally got this
the night before we left for our trip my
cousins the andersons got it for us and
it's a kindle we have books on it and we
can now take turns reading we actually
read a lot so thank you guys so much and
definitely recommend a kindle if you're
traveling and now on to miscellaneous
must-haves we've been traveling so far
for just about two and a half weeks and
most of these things we have already
used we'll let you know on things we
haven't used yet but we'll get into that
we'll start over here with this fun
handy thing it's our first aid kit
so we've just got some band-aids and
some of those wipey things all you need
in a first aid kit we have my wallet
our passport
protector keith's wallet this super fun
awesome multi-tool that we got for
christmas which is allowed on the
airplane but we do get flagged every
time prep by security and then they find
out is this and they're like yeah you
can go through we might not have it by
the end of the trip someone might take
it away but so far it's been really
awesome and we have used it a few times
we have
each our own set of earplugs which we
have used already i think on the
airplane we both have a watch reusable
grocery rigs so helpful cannot recommend
enough we've used them so much already
especially when we're on the same island
moving from place to place and we have
groceries we just put our groceries in
and that way we can travel with our
groceries we already have this is my in
case you ever do something fancy purse
slash hair container so i've got like my
jewelry and earrings in here i've got a
lot of clips headbands
um a little hair brush not that i brush
my hair that often but that is what this
bin is have used most things in here so
far up next we have our workout area we
have two leg bands and then some
armbands that you can attach to this and
attach to a wall to do some working out
which is really awesome can you sit
outside or inside keith's tennis ball
for his back in case you want to like
play catch well for to massage well it's
for keep the massages back but we could
also play catch with it
this we have not used yet because
luckily everywhere we stayed has had a
coffee bottom filter something or other
you just put your filter in there
it gets nice and small have not had to
use this yet but definitely was a must
for us because we are big coffee
drinkers some duct tape just in case a
deck of cards a clothesline we have not
had to use this yet because all your b
and b's we've stayed at actually had a
clothing rack but just in case we have a
clothesline keith's handy-dandy super
small belt
a keychain that we we attach our keys to
whenever we stay in a new place
a little
needle in case we need to sew anything
up
two epipens i found out in the last year
i'm allergic to brazil nuts so i have
two epi pens just in case hopefully
we'll not need to use those
this we've not used yet but it is like a
travel pouch wallet secret thing so you
might get some use
my buff use this on airplanes to sleep
it's a good little mask also for hiking
i love my buff
some wipes have used these great for van
life
two towels that are quick dry
our awesome foldable containers i'll
quickly show you guys this
just pops right open and then we have
little containers and they even come
with a fork and spoon and knife thing we
each have a pair of sunglasses and
keita's pair of glasses as well he
trades between this case
we both have these awesome backpacks
i'll quickly open them for you
and so we both have one you have a
little backpack strap on your back put
your water bottle in we both have a
notebook and two pens which i actually
have done some writing in mine so it's
been nice to have it does take up space
though
and our pharmacy this has been really
helpful i also have a puffer apparently
i have like all the issues advil
tylenol gravel that kind of stuff some
of those aqua tabs just in case and then
we've got a bunch of pills in here which
is like gravel some more gravel middle
things like that lastly on this side we
have our proof of apps in paper
um either poppy and keith has a coffee
as well as we have copies of our
passports just in case and then a huge
bag of masks because
and our water bottles we both have the
exact same clean canteen water bottle
does an awesome job keeping the water
cold or warm and they're reusable and
good for the environment and they put
little carabiners on them they're
awesome they're great and that concludes
our miscellaneous must-haves
final segment like we said
stuff we can't live without now we're
not talking about our phones which we
use every day which are necessary with
google maps and airbnb and gmail or our
glasses and our watches stuff that you
use all the time that you would use
every day in your average life we're
talking about stuff specific to travel
that we didn't realize how much we use
so we're gonna go at the same time okay
ready
two two three
oh
okay you can explain yours that's a good
that's a good one mine are my airpods we
got these before the trip like devin
said and they have been so incredibly
handy we've used them between our phones
our computers swapping you know when
devon's editing and i'm doing something
else we're jumping from one device to
the next these are key and on the
airplane they work really well yeah for
cutting noise out they're really awesome
and it's really cool we can set them up
to the same device so we could watch a
movie together so we don't need a
headphone splitter gone are those days
it's pretty cool so this is my item
and mine is funny enough this tupperware
container because first of all look at
how small it gets so it's super tiny at
first keith almost didn't bring him i
almost didn't bring mine but i was like
come on we gotta both bring them and we
have used this every single day of our
trip we've got food from the lounges in
the airport if we have leftovers we
stick them in here which surprisingly
even more leftovers well we're cooking
for ourselves so we always have
leftovers like for just anything also
when we're van life and we use it just
really practical every single day we use
it and i love it and it gets so small
and it's really good for the environment
because you're not even at restaurants
when you have it you can use this
instead of a non-reusable one yeah so
take away a takeaway thank you so this
is my item i must bring a small
tupperware if you can bring it
and finally our backpacks we did a lot
of research as to which backpacks we'd
want to bring on our trip and we decided
to go with these guys because they're on
sale
for black friday yes we love the
backpacks and bags that we brought on
this trip they've been so practical and
so helpful so we'll quickly go over what
we brought in case you're interested
these are our peak design 45 liter
travel bags
they've been phenomenal on this trip
it's crazy how much you can fit in here
you saw earlier and why i love it is
because it opens like a suitcase so it's
really easy to access everything when
you're on the road there's also a bunch
of little pockets so you can stay really
organized computer holder i like it
because i use it this way different from
devon it's customizable
like a big bucket
if i close the back here
because i removed the inside layer
versus i have fine in two separate
compartments so i have like i keep all
my clothes and shoes in the back and
then all my other miscellaneous i just
rolled this middle compartment to the
bottom it's right down here this gives
me a little more space this is actually
better for me yeah so these bags have
been incredible so far
i'm really happy with their decision
also because they're carry-on size so
that was a huge factor oh that was like
a must was a need to be carry-on size
with carry-on bags you get your bag that
goes up and then you also get your
under-the-seat bags first item yeah your
personal item which we both have
different personal items so
this is mine it's the peak design six
liter sling this is the best it carries
our drone our camera my wallet um
literally all of our all the important
stuff right here some cash very handy
tool from carrying bag
no it's awesome and then for me i
actually funny enough i have three bags
that all go in one bag so this is i
wanted a bag that could fit my computer
in it because i wanted to have my
computer always
easy access due to the fact that when
we're on the airplane we're editing or
that kind of thing so i wanted a bag
that fit a laptop in it so it's got a
laptop compartment a bunch of little
pockets and then
originally i wanted i also wanted a
little purse because this is very big so
i got this purse pac-safe purse um and
it can be up like this if you want it
bigger or smaller for like little
day-to-day outings and then i actually
use the straps for my purse
to carry my laptop egg because the ones
that it came with were like big and
bulky so i just liked this one better
and so then this just slides in there at
the bottom so my purse is just like
another pocket in my main bag and then
right before we left a friend of mine
julia gave this to me as a going away
present and this was my other option for
my
must-have on the trip i use this every
day all the time either around my waist
or here i carry
my phone
yeah it's really like cards like when
we're traveling my past our passports
here so they're nice and close it's just
been amazing and it says can for canada
so people know we're canadian so i guess
that's everything yeah that's everything
wow that's everything and now to put
everything away because we're leaving
our airbnb tomorrow we made a mess
and we're off it's the next day and we
are leaving our airbnb but we're all
packed we're all packed up dude in a
rush too only takes about 20 minutes
we're used to it now to pack a favorite
anyways thank you so much for watching
our packing video was a bit different
than our usual videos but we hope you
enjoyed it
we fit everything on that this bed yeah
that was a lot of stuff
well stick around if you want to see us
travel with our stuff yes and thank you
so much for watching we'll see you in
our next video thanks for watching
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i don't know
i can't do that over time
i can't spin apparently
what is wrong with me
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