
What and how you pack depends on where you go and when. But one piece of advice remains the same no matter what: take as little as possible! No matter how long you plan to travel—one month or two years—pack as if you were traveling for 10 days at the most, and expect to do laundry often.
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Has it been your dream to take a few months, or even years, to travel the world, or some part of it, but you can’t quite grasp how you would do it, or when? How, exactly, do you step away from the life in which you are so entrenched and make room for long-term travel? What, exactly, would you need to do to make that happen?
Slow travel basically means staying at a single location long enough to savor it, whether that be for one week or three months. It means experiencing all you want in a place, at the comfort of your own pace. Often, it is as much about the journey as it is the destination, making adventuring by train, boat, bus, or motorbike just as valid as by plane.
This is a question we get asked often, and one we asked of ourselves when we started our nomadic world travels with the kids.
If you’ve decided to travel for more than a month, and especially if you’ll be traveling for more than six months, you’ll need to do something about your mail.