Car-top Carrier

I was asked today, "So how does one pack for a one month vacation?" In my head it seemed easy to just answer that I was planning on packing two (maybe three) bags for our family of two adults, one toddler and a medium sized dog.  Then I opened the trunk of my GMC and chuckled at how it would never work! Even if I could find a way to pack a month of family stuff into two bags (which we all know is completely impossible!) there was no way I would be able to squeeze the bags, a pack-n-play, and anything else we would need into our SUV! Ha!

We started to look into those car-top carriers and my goodness those things can get expensive! Since we didn't want to spend $500 on a special one, we started to look into used ones but those still were reselling for more then we expected on Craigslist and online community yard sales. We thought maybe we could borrow or rent one from friends but that would be asking too much to take it for 1.5months at the peak travel season/end of summer. So we started to look harder and sure enough Kmart and Sears came through! For $130 we were able to use coupon codes and online coupons (and what I like to call my husbands magical & savvy way to making things cheaper) and sure enough we were able to get a great hard car-top carrier to make our lives easier! I'll let you know if it works well by the time we drive down the East coast, but right now we are happy with the amount of room it provides and seems sturdy enough for our needs too!