Quotes About Packing

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location.

I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white sneakers, my blue backpack, and my laptop. I don't have any special things otherwise.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story The Book-Bag.

Don't leave behind anything you might need, don't bring anything you don't. Pace won't be hard, but once we set out, could be days before we come back.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Life's a Trip... ok. I just want to know who packed for me.

While Jeff had been packing for this trip to his grandparents, his mother had tucked a flashlight and extra batteries into his suitcase over his protests. "So if you have to get up in the night you can find the bathroom down the hall," she had said. "Mom, that's crazy!"' "No, it isn't. I know from experience. There are lots of little tables and what-nots in that hall, and you could break a toe.

pot of coffee. By the time she packed up her work and sent it off, the coffeepot would be empty

I'm sad, but not with a definite sadness, nor even with an indefinite sadness. I'm sad down there, on the street littered with packing crates.

I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.

They placed the blankets and the pillow and the toys into the trunk, depositing as they did a residue of sand that would be there throughout the winter. Standing

She had packed two china teacups, wrapped in paper towels. She would not drink from anything else. He

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

Haley wondered to herself as she packed a sample of virtually every over-the-counter medication she was allowed to take into her travel bag. Insect

Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.

presently occupied by Cleopatra, who was busy packing her bags for a rapid exit to Egypt.

Pack your mother and kiss your clothes goodbye. No!" He banged his head against the table. "Kiss your mother and pack your clothes. Your train leaves at one.

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.