Ladies - I wear a pair of flats and pack one pair of athtletic shoes. Shoes will "eat your lunch" including weight and space. Ken has the same one pair of brown (kind of dress shoes) and wears his athletic shoes. That is it for us for the shoes!

We are doing the Gorillas post ROAR lll and can only have 33lbs each TOTAL including ALL hand luggage. Kens Camera/Computer bag weighs 30lbs!

Talk about a struggle this has been the hardest packing I have ever done. That leaves 30lbs for everything else - almost impossible. However the Cameras are a MUST GO or my Mr. Nice Ken would turn into something else.

I found some luggage called ASAKS and a 26' duffle with wheels weighs under 5lbs. I got a carryon rolling 22" duffle I put his camera bag in as it would be a killer to carry during the flight another "hernia" in the making. I just did not want to take heavy duffles without wheels this time. I have a small but spacious cabin bag that weighs less than one pound. Great stuff and STRONG not cheap! So that was 11 lbs in the actual bags so now I have 22lbs left for clothes, toiletries (they weigh a lot) everything else for both of us.

We could not store and pick up later either as fly into Kigali and home from Nairobi no way to "pick up luggage" to take home.

Susan kindly offered to bring a bag back for us when she comes back from South Africa and that was fantastic. So I am bringing two
ASAK duffles (one each weigh about 20lbs each) and Susan will take one home with her after the safari. That really helped a lot as we have normal clothes now for Birkenhead and La Residence. When we go to the Gorillas we will only have 30lbs of personal clothing,toiletries, tickets etc just absolute necessities and of course 30lbs of cameras. That is 10 nights long in total we can to make it.

I still only have 10lbs of personal clothes so I will NOT be changing for dinner at the camps.