One thing that we feel is really important is to have a trip post-mortem (lessons learned) discussion and to document it. It sounds super nerd-ish, but it's really frustrating to find yourself saying on a trip "shit, we forgot [something] again... let's remember it next time". It's also a good idea to discuss what you did well, what needs work, did you pack any gear that you'd thought that you'd need but never used, etc.
For instance, when we were in Europe we did a lot of low light pictures that didn't turn out too well. We thought that bringing a tripod would be a great solution to that, so for our Costa Rica trip we took one. I think that we used it once in 2 weeks. It wasn't too heavy, but next time it might not be the best thing to take on a camping trip.
Another example is for most of our trips we don't take cutlery so we end up buying plastic forks, knives and spoons. We've got a ton of those now. It would be much better to take some camping cutlery instead.
Lessons learned are only learned in you don't keep on making the same mistakes. :-P
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