Checked Bags ... ✔︎

We've got our master bedroom back!

Yup ... exactly one week before we leave home, our checked bags are packed and sitting in the garage. What remains to be zipped up are our Miami bag and the two carry-on bags ... for those day-of-departure items that we can't quite pack yet.

No, don't ask how many bags we're taking. It really doesn't matter. This is one voyage for which I don't stress too much over what stays and what goes. I will say that having a mock-up of the category B2 cabin closet space helped a great deal in determining our clothing options … which in turn minimized what we would have otherwise taken. (In the photo, the combined hanging space between the two closets is everything to the left of the white line at the top of the bar.)

Now we can sit back and relax ... and keep our fingers crossed that the snow forecasted for the Denver area on our departure day will fizzle out!Read more