Organizing My Travel Pantry
To what extent one plans specific traveling details is as personal as how one organizes a kitchen pantry. No two people strategically shelve and arrange food items in exactly the same way. Individual needs, preferences and accessibility are prioritized. In my life, the cayenne pepper gets the top shelf behind everything else. Someone else might prefer the pepper be placed in plain view – easily accessible for spicing up a morning juice or favorite omelette.
To minimize stress and anxiety before embarking on this life-altering journey, I wanted to make sure that all shelves in my pantry included some specific content just to feel a sense of balance and reasonable confidence that I knew what I was doing. My “travel pantry” consisted of four primary shelves – destinations, transportation, accommodations and packing – prioritized and organized in that order. Thoughtful details in each category, aligned with my travel palette, followed and proved beneficial throughout my travels.
