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# What I pack, and what I finally stopped packing
- URL: https://astrix-meridian.adrianoamalfi.com/what-i-finally-stopped-packing/
- Published: 2026-07-22T13:53:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-22T14:09:22.000Z
- Description: Eleven years of over-packing, distilled into a short list and one hard-won rule.
- Author: Sana Okafor
- Tags: Field Notes

I used to travel with a bag that could survive a siege. Now I travel with one that can survive a long walk, which turns out to be the thing that actually happens.

## What earns its place

- One jacket that is warm when dry and useless when wet, plus one that is the opposite
- A notebook, because the phone is a terrible place to think
- Two of exactly one thing: socks

## What I stopped bringing

- The second camera body I have used precisely twice
- Books I intend to read rather than books I am reading
- Anything justified by the sentence "just in case"

The rule underneath all of it: if I cannot carry it up a hill at the end of a long day, it is not coming.