I've always tended to over-pack. I like to be prepared, particularly when in a foreign country. I'm the sort of person who brings every medication you could possibly need plus back-ups of everything. I even have a flashlight in my bag. Usually when we travel to Egypt, we can bring two bags plus a carry-on. But recently airline rules have changed, and the carrier we are flying (Lufthansa) only allows one free bag. It will be $140 round-trip for me to bring a second. To get around this, I've tried to pack light. The problem is, with all of the equipment I had to bring for the project plus the mattress pad (a definite necessary item, the beds are terrible on your back in our house in Egypt), my checked luggage bag is already full. I'm trying to get around the second-bag issue by packing all of my clothes into a small(ish) duffel bag.
More than likely Lufthansa is going to make me check my second bag, but it's worth a try.
In other news, so EXCITED to leave (and sad to leave behind my fiance and friends). And very angry at HP for not returning my laptop to me in time for me to take it to Egypt (the screen died, they fixed it, and then screwed up shipping it to me). I have to use "old rusty," my 5-year old HP laptop with only 1 GB RAM and a 1.5 ghz AMD processor. Yeah, it works real well.
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