208: Packing Tips for Simplified & Stress-Free Travel
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're planning for a weekend trip or extended vacation - today's episode is for you if you want to simplify your packing and travel experience!
When we travel with less it offers more freedom, flexibility, and a lot less headache.
We recently took a 2-week, bucket-list trip to Europe and everyone asked me, "How much did you pack?!"
As someone who used to be a chronic over-packer I'm proud to say I took ONE carry-on (with room to spare) and in today's episode I share some tips and strategies I used to make this happen!
xx Katy
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.1 | Remember, in your travels, you'll meet two kinds of tourists, those who pack light and those who |
| 0:35.7 | wish they had. Say it out loud. Pack light, pack light, pack |
| 0:40.2 | light. So this is a quote from one of my favorite TV travel hosts, Rick Steves. I love him. |
| 0:46.0 | My husband and I have watched his show for, gosh, like over two decades on PBS. And a recent |
| 0:51.5 | trip to Europe, my family and I took for two weeks is what inspired today's |
| 0:55.5 | episode. And plus I know a lot of you are doing summer vacation, summer traveling, going back home |
| 0:59.9 | for a week, doing weekend trips. And I was so inspired after this two week trip because all I took |
| 1:05.4 | was one carry on. And it kind of still blows my mind because Katie 1.0 would have carried like a checked bag and probably a carry on for a two week trip and also increased my stress levels. |
| 1:17.1 | Just traveling with so much. |
| 1:20.3 | And so that's what inspired today's episode. |
| 1:22.7 | So we went and took a family trip for two weeks. |
| 1:25.0 | We went to Amsterdam for a handful of days. |
| 1:26.9 | And we flew from |
| 1:27.7 | Amsterdam to Switzerland, hung out on the mountains, beautiful mountains of Louder Brunen and Wangen |
| 1:33.6 | and all these amazing towns there. And then we drove to Kulmar, kind of northeast France, |
| 1:39.4 | hung out there for a few days, visited some castles, went to some medieval towns, as you do in some places in |
| 1:46.4 | Europe, and then we trained to Paris to finish off our trip, went to the Eiffel Tower, went to the |
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