I follow DH's advice on packing: Take only what you can carry without assistance. (He did not specify the number of trips to and from the car and also did not take into account how much a woman who is too lazy to make more than one trip can drag along and carry at once!) The lists above cover it all. It als helps to have different lengths of straps on bags and baskets you hook over your shoulders, arms and whatever other appendages seem useful at the time and to hang some of the things on the long handle of the drag-long machine case.