good morning YouTube we got a beautiful sunrise here on the Ruby Princess we're somewhere off
the coast of Porto Vallarta Mexico we pull in tomorrow which should be pretty cool I get it
pretty early so I always catch the sunrises and I'm shooting this intro video outside because
my packing video has some weird zooming in and zooming out action going on especially in the
beginning of the video so I figured I'd reshoot the intro let you know about that I apologize
this is actually the first video I Shot for the last eight months I took an eight month break off
YouTube to handle some health issues and now I'm back shooting videos and this is my first one so
the people who have been watching for a while will tell you my videos will get better I promise but
that's one of those videos you can only shoot once you can't reshoot it I couldn't repack
everything and give you an authentic unpacking video showing you what I carried on this Cruise
so I figured I'd just roll with it without further Ado let's jump into that video foreign
so what I'm wearing obviously you gotta count that I'm wearing some long pants I'm wearing
some comfortable sneakers some socks I've got a sweater on over a collared shirt this is Moreno
wolf you've been watching my channel for a while you know I love Miranda wool it's a great travel
material I think it's going to be great for cruising we shall see so I've been traveling
out of a backpack for the last three years just one backpack I travel carry-on only I
originally started with a 30 liter backpack and then I transitioned to a 20 liter backpack so I
don't pack a lot but on a cruise you have other things to consider like formal nights nights
where you have to get dressed up a little bit more than you normally would that's why I have
a sport coat this is uh just a very basic Italian wool bonobos sport coat and I carry it with me on
a plane so I don't have to pack it all right let's talk about this bag here so I know a lot
of my watchers from the past are going to look at this and go oh my my God Kevin has a suitcase I
was never necessarily a backpack guy but I was always a carry-on only guy in the States this
fits every Airline carry-on only specifications so I traveled carry-on only I plan on doing that
while cruising this is a level eight I got it on Amazon actually right now I really really like it
going to the airport with this thing the wheels work great so I've been pretty impressed so far
but for a guy who only traveled with a backpack for so long you know anything above a backpack
is luxury so for me this is kind of luxurious so let's jump into this thing so this thing I think
is 40 liters maybe a little bit more so it's about 10 liters more than I originally started traveling
with and double what I traveled with for the last three years so we've got two sides to this bag
actually let me start off with this so I just put my laptop in here against my clothes it's
in this you know laptop safe bag here and you know just holds the laptop I use to edit videos
another great thing about a laptop so a lot of people have charging issues on ships this is just
basically a big giant charger it's got four USBC or yeah USBC ports and so I can charge this thing
at night and I can charge all my devices here in the day a lot of people complain about cruise
ships shutting off the power in your room when you leave and nothing that's in your room is charging
that's plugged in well if you have a laptop like this that you charged all night you can just have
your stuff plugged into your laptop your phone you know whatever it is that you need to charge
up your camera whatever it is so this thing is not only a laptop it also doubles at a big giant
charging Bank when you're on a cruise ship so that's really all that's in here there's a couple
you know a couple cords when I'm going through the airport and I need stuff I can just open this bag
up and pull this out if I need cores or anything like that so this side has nothing but close in
it but I'm going to start with this side here which has everything but close all right so in
this little zipper pouch is some detergent sheets so ninety percent of my clothes are Merino wool
and so I can wash them in the sink pretty easily these little things are washing sheets so you take
this little thing right here and you can put it in a normal washer as well but you can just put
it in the sink and they'll dissolve and so this is a great little pack for cruises one of the big
things about cruises is you either have to pay for laundry or you have to do your laundry in the sink
some cruise ships have laundry facilities like this one does and it's pretty inexpensive so on
here I'll probably actually do most of my laundry in a washer but I wanted to pack like I would for
going on all kinds of different cruise ships so that's why I have these in here on this other side
is just a bunch of drugs uh we've got uh seasick pills just in case I need them I mean I was in
the Navy for 20 years so if I need to use C6 pill someone's going to pull my Navy card
I have uh DayQuil and NyQuil tabs basically and a couple of Band-Aids I'm always cutting my fingers
for some reason so that's what's in in there so not that much in those little pouches all right
so this side is actually the smaller side where I have my clothes and originally I put them on the
deeper side but then I realized that the shoes that I wanted to pack the dress shoes didn't
fit very well in here so I moved them over here and it actually worked out great I can fit just
as much clothes in this shallow side as I could over here but over here I can fit other stuff
much better than I could over here because I'll show you in a minute okay so let's open this up so
I've got some Lululemon pants on by the way I've got two Lululemon pants which I'll talk about and
a pair of Moreno wool pants um I got this bag when I bought Lululemon clothes and I figured
this would be a great little beach bag I don't need a lot of stuff so for me I can throw my cell
phone in here my sunglasses some other stuff that I'll show you in a minute and I can just carry it
in this little bag and I didn't have to purchase anything these Lululemon bags are actually pretty
nice so we've got that in here got a ball cap I'm bald and I had skin cancer on my forehead
here so I got to be careful so I brought myself a ball cap here Georgetown law representing
all right uh on this side I have these are the only clothes I have on this side I don't know
why I put them on this side uh just in case I needed to wear them I've got one pair of Merino
wool underwear and what do they call these they call them rash guards but this one's SPF 50 I
believe so sun protection I'm really really big on sun protection because I've had skin cancer
the chances of me getting again are pretty high so I'm very cognizant of that so I actually have
two of these but that's what's on this side I like I mean the whole reason I'm doing this
cruising thing is to spend time in some tropical places and so I got some water shoes so that's
what these are I bought them off Amazon they're pretty cheap we'll see how they work out all this
stuff is experimental by the way I don't know if this stuff is going to work it could suck if
you buy it based on this video I'm not promising anything it might suck and I'm also going to use
them to work out in on the ship it's not like I'm going out on concrete or anything like that
it's going to be to go up to the ship's gym uh this is my laptop cord so this is one of those
travel hacks I always recommend to people so I have a long cord for my MacBook I bought it on
Amazon no matter where I plug this up in this little skate room I have here on the ship I can
get my laptop there I think getting long cords is actually really smart for a traveler because you
never know where the outlets are going to be but I can plug this thing almost in the bathroom and get
it to my bed so I recommend getting long cords they take up a little bit more space but it's
worth it and you just don't have to worry about you know trying to figure out where you're going
to plug things in there's no plugins over there maybe there is for the lamps that have to move
all that stuff out but a lot of times that's what people complain about on cruise ships so
so we got that uh here we have some dress shoes this is a 16 day cruise I think we're doing three
or four smart casual business casual type of things and there's like one or two formal nights
I don't have super formal that's just not how I roll anyway so it'll be a sport coat you know a
collared shirt but I did bring these I could also wear these with shorts if I wanted to these are
made by a company called amberjack which I really like they're super comfortable just slip-ons not
the normal ones you tie I just prefer the slip-ons because I can also wear them with shorts and we've
got I've got socks that like protect my sunglasses here whether in my bag so we've got the sunglasses
we've got another pair of socks which were shoved in there I've got some tweezers just
in case I need them I know I've got all kinds of random stuff in here I've got my GoPro that
was stuffed in my shoes so it didn't get damaged another set of little ankle socks all right this
thing so this is a little spray bottle a lot of times on ships it's hard to get stuff ironed most
of the stuff I have is Merino wool or kind of like wrinkle free fabric but it still does get a little
wrinkly and what you can do is you can fill this thing with water and just Mist your clothes with
it the wrinkles will fall out so that's what this little guy is right here got it on Amazon for like
I don't know I think it was six bucks for like four of them uh only got one with me okay next up
a water bottle so on cruise ships they have drink packages they're pretty expensive so
I bring a water bottle there's tea coffee water as much as you want on a cruise ship
for free I just go and fill this thing up that's what this water bottle here is for
okay this one's interesting get your mind out of the gutter it's not what you think
all right so I've got this little rope in here so you're probably asking yourself what in the
heck why do you have this rope so I mentioned that I do a lot of my laundry in the sink
well on a cruise ship they usually most cruise ships will have this little line in the bathroom
but it's really small it's like to hang swim gear so if I want to dry my clothes and here I need
something more substantial so I don't know if you know this but all ships are made of steel so I got
these little hooks off Amazon and you can hook them to the wall and you can hang things up you
know I could just hang something on here and let it dry this is fun if you're having fun learning
what I'm bringing on this Cruise smash the Thumbs Up Button I've got a razor here very simple shave
my Chrome Dome I used to have a a buzzer but it broke on me I need to get another one I've
got deodorant toothpaste toothbrush in here and I've got them in this plastic bag to keep them
from getting all over the place and then this bag is full of all the odds and ends that I need to
make YouTube videos and there's a bunch of cords and wires I do want to show you a couple of them
all right so I always carry one of these with me and it's just a universal plug and you can plug
it in anywhere and it has four USB ports on it so I'll probably plug it in somewhere and have all my
USBs hanging out this thing actually I got this on Amazon too I mentioned earlier I really like long
cords I can you know have my laptop sitting on the desk over here and this long cord will reach to my
bed and I can still play on my phone if I want to so I highly recommend getting some of these
long cords you can just go on Amazon and find them all over the place and nine times out of
ten they're actually better than the ones you have the rest of the stuff I have in here just
ins and outs that I need to make YouTube videos that you probably wouldn't need to carry with you
I do have this thing here's one here's a cruise hack for you so these little things you know what
this is it goes on your pants and it extends how far your button goes so if you get a little chunky
on the cruise from eating all the good Cruise food you just pop one of these on your pants you're
good to go all right so that's everything on this side of the bag I actually could have got more
stuff in here I didn't pack it to the to the brim I'm really trying to get a feel on what I'll need
so you know that's where we are on this side all right let's go over to the other side where the
clothes are so I actually fit a fair amount of clothes this thing and another pair of shoes
which we'll see in a minute so I've got some swim trunks here these are one of my favorites I think
I got these on Lulu at Lululemon sometime back a long time ago these are some new pants I'm trying
out I can't recommend them yet they're made by Unbound Moreno you guys know I love them
by Moreno I do have a new discount code there for those who've been following me for a while they
changed it again it is now wake up and so you'll get 10 off I haven't tried these yet so I can't
recommend them but they seem really cool they seem to fit like blue jeans but they're made of
Merino wool they're very stretchy but they don't look like stretchy materials so I'm interested
to try these out on the cruise but that's my second pair of pants so I've got these and these
all right so we've got a Unbound Moreno again and this is just a black dress shirt compare this
with a lot of different things I compare it with this sport coat here and a pair of whatever pants
and those dress shoes and I'm good to go nothing beats a black dress shirt can also just wear it by
itself with a pair of nice slacks and be pretty dressy if you're trying to travel with not that
much stuff it's an essential item in my opinion all right next up is a white shirt this is for my
lawyer days this is a wrinkle free Brooks brother we'll see how it works out I just brought it
because I had it all this stuff is you know trial and error for me right now I've got another pair
of Lululemon pants just like the ones I have on here what I like about them is They Don't Really
wrinkle they look like dress slacks I mean this has been folded up in my bag for a couple days and
they're not wrinkly at all which is great that's the kind of stuff that's the kind of stuff I like
all right we've got a pair of shorts these are just super cheap Amazon basic shorts I
love the Amazon basic shorts so it's a pair of those we've got the tie here I mentioned
earlier can throw on something make it a little bit fancier I need to get a little bit fancier
we've got some workout shorts here these are just Olivers they're a pair of old workout
shorts I have these are another Amazon Basics that I got yeah Amazon essentials I got little
anchors on them it's swim trunk you know I'm on a cruise there's a lot of pools I'm doing a little
snorkeling tour gotta have some swim trunks got another pair of shorts khaki shorts Lululemon a
little bit fancier a stretchy type of material that's great we've got a Merino wool t-shirt
blue colored one I think this is called ice on Unbound Moreno's website I think that's the name
of it you guys know I normally wear just black but I'm going to try some other colors I also
got this color of Unbound Moreno shirt and we have another pair of shoes that I got on Amazon
all right this bad boy right here it's the same case as my case for my electronics it's
a compression case so inside this thing are three black minor wool shirts three pair of underwear
and another UV SPF 50 rash guard shirt so we're gonna go ahead and open this thing up this is
great I was able to get you know four shirts and three pair of underwear in here which is awesome
again this is Morena wool so while it's wrinkly all I got to do is throw it in
the sink for a few minutes get it wet hang it up it'll be nice and unwrinkly really quickly
so I've got one v-neck you guys don't see me wear Merino wools and v-neck that's so I can wear them
underneath these dress shirts you know I have three collar dress shirts and if I think I'm
gonna sweat like crazy I'll wear one of these under it so the shirt doesn't you know have
sweat stains all over it so that's why I have this v-neck I'm not a huge fan of v-necks but
I figured I'd get one for that purpose since I know I'm going to be cruising a lot
okay here is that rash guard shirt I was talking about all the stuff you can find on Amazon for the
most part except for the Unbound Moreno this is just an O'Neill rash guard and it's a SPF 50. all
right another Unbound Moreno black shirt you'll see that that theme a lot another one right here
and uh my three pair of underwear all right so that's what I packed for this 16 day cruise to
kind of figure out what I need to pack for a year-long cruise so tell me what you think
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