It is getting to be the time for us to start sifting through our possessions and decide what is going to Indonesia with us and what isn't. Sounds easy enough, right? The kicker is that we need to ship most of our stuff in wooden crates (200 cubic feet allowance) ahead of us to our permanent base which we will not see...wait for it...for an entire year! Our crates will hang out in a storage facility, board a cargo ship, cross the ocean, and meet us at customs in either Borneo or Papua. Our family will take a detour to Salatiga, Indonesia for language school where will be living out of our checked luggage for a year.
This concept has been messing with my sub conscience I believe. I had a dream the other night that I forgot to pack all of our kitchen stuff so we weren't able to cook anything. Even worse, I only packed jeans and sweatshirts for myself! Needless to say I was HOT. I spent my dream searching for summer clothes at the store but I couldn't find anything that fit my "american" body type.
What would you pack in your checked luggage? What item can you not part with for a year?
