Travel: 5 Brilliant Packing Tips from Hitha on the Go

June 3rd, 2013 • BY

How many of us have learned the hard way to pack light? From huffing a too-big suitcase through European train stations to wrestling with an unruly zipper, we’ve all been there. Enter Portavi Company, a new service that helps travelers curate the perfect travel packing list for any trip. Their guarantee: It’ll all fit into a handy, little carry-on-size suitcase.

After watching her husband, a traveling consultant, struggle to pack each week, founder Hitha Palepu got inspired to help others fine-tune their travel kit sweat-free. As vice president of a pharmaceutical company, Palepu, who pens the blog Hitha on the Go, travels quite a bit herself. She offers WM readers five crucial pieces of advice for packing light and packing well:

  1. Only pack 3 pairs of shoes. I whittle down my selections to a pair of flats, a pair of heels, and sturdy walking shoes or sneakers. I never travel without my Tieks ballet flats—they’re beautifully constructed, portable, and, most importantly, comfortable.
  2. If you don’t love it, don’t pack it. Travel is never the right time to try new trends or clothing that doesn’t make you feel your absolute best. For business trips, I rely on my small collection of M.M LaFleur dresses. For warm weather vacations, I always pack shorts from J.Crew, linen tees from Zara, and a pair of Superga sneakers.
  3. Roll and fold your clothes. I’m a roller and a folder. For shorter jaunts, I’ll roll my clothes and arrange them at the bottom of my duffel bag. For long trips—seven days or more—I’ll fold my large items into my Flight001 SpacePak and roll the small items (underwear, tanks and tees, workout clothes) and stuff them in empty nooks in my suitcase. Socks get rolled and stored inside my shoes.
  4. Write a packing list. Before any trip, I plan out all my outfits, ensuring that most pieces will be worn at least twice. I take stock of my toiletries (I swear by 3FlOz.com for purchasing my favorite products in TSA-approved sizes), select the jewelry items I plan to pack, and my shoes and bags. A little pre-trip planning makes the packing process go much easier.
  5. Create a pack of chargers. I keep a pouch of spare chargers and headphones pre-packed at all times—this bag lives in my purse, and I transfer it into my travel bag along with my wallet, keys, and touch-up makeup bag.Hitha3

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Kate Siber has worked as a pastry cook, a small-time farmer, a ski-rental tech, and a thankless-accounting drone, among other distinctive vocations, but the career she tried on and kept was writing. For the last eight years, Siber, a freelance writer and correspondent for Outside magazine, has traipsed the globe in search of stories, shooting blowguns with Amazonian tribes in Ecuador, tracking rhinos in South Africa, and diving with— More about this author →