<p>Our daughter goes to school an 18-hour car drive away. We rented a stow-n-go van from our local dealership to drive her out east the first year and all her stuff fit in it very well. I agree that girls tend to have more stuff. Because a lot of the kids at her school come from long distances, there is no expectation that they will haul the stuff home in the summer. They have unsecured (dorm basement) and secured (locked room overseen by campus security)summer storage on campus. A student entrepreneur group also does off-site storage by renting storage rooms and hauling the stuff for a fee. One thing we have learned as small-town midwesterners in the last two years is that for having her fly home for semester breaks and summer, we save $500 per plane ticket ($200 vs. $700) by driving 4 hours to a major airport with a non-stop flight to her city on the east coast.</p>