PackingPanama Departure Allison Sherman Posted onDecember 6, 2015December 24, 2016 Comments are off 1763 Views We arrived Panama with 13 checked suitcases and 4 carry on. Fourteen months later, we’re leaving Panama with 6 checked and 4 carry on. Modest improvement. We’ll try to get down to 4 checked and 4 carry on, when we leave Mexico.