It’s getting closer to our fly out date to Hawaii so I was being proactive (okay, maybe paranoid is a better word) and wanted to see how I was going to manage the checked bag/luggage situation.

I am dead set on only taking one luggage piece to be checked in on the airplane so I had to make all of our camping gear fit in, along with our jackets, which I decided to bring because I had read on numerous sites that on the Haleakala Sunrise experience it tends to be very cold at the top. Better safe than freezing, because I hate being cold.

The luggage is my parent’s older one, it’s an Air Express brand that measures approximately 21.5 x 13.5 inches:

2 rain jackets:

2 Thermarest sleeping pads (20 x 4.5 in.):

30 ML stuff sack that contains the tent, stakes, and rain fly (21 x 7 in.):

2 sleeping bags (Helio – 9 x 7.5 in./Carina – 17 x 10 in.):

The tent’s footprint, a smaller stuff sack (that I plan on using once there for food), and my larger sunblock (this great one is mango scented and smells wonderful):

Annnnd: ta – daaa! It all fit!! 🙂

Note: the tent poles I had to take out the stuff sack and place at in angle at the bottom of the luggage so they are underneath everything.

The luggage has several zippered compartments. This is the main largest one:

This is the upper zippered compartment (I had to squash it a bit to close it):

And this is the backside smaller one that just had the jackets and the sunblock.

So there ya go. Maybe now I can stop worrying about my checked luggage and start working on worrying about our carryon backpacks.