#carry-on-travel

#carry-on-travel

As a parent to two young kids, traveling can be exhausting, and lugging around excess baggage is the last thing I want. So, this summer, my husband and I decided to try only packing carry-ons - three backpacks, two small suitcases, one weekender bag, and one laptop bag - for our family's monthlong vacation to the UK. We navigated rainstorms in London, cooler nights in Cambridge, heatwaves, and the occasional delayed train, but never once felt as though we underpacked.

As someone who typically prefers to travel with just a carry-on bag, I've tried pretty much every packing hack to fit as much as possible into my suitcase. A glance inside will uncover shirts wound around hair tools, socks stuffed into shoes, and dresses tightly rolled into every crevice. I've become so confident in my ability to stuff a suitcase that I've typically been skeptical of packing cubes-that is, until my last Europe trip.