Two weeks of travel in a single carry-on isn’t about packing less — it’s about packing the same things, just better organized. The capsule we use is four tops, two bottoms, a layer, and one set of shoes that work for everything from a museum to a hike.
Folding versus rolling is a religious war we won’t fight here, but compression cubes are non-negotiable. They turn dead space into roughly 30% more capacity and they make airport security re-packs trivial.
