On multi-day private-car trips, the boot is stressed more by daytime use than by night unloads
Many people instinctively organize the boot around the hotel arrival moment.
But in Xinjiang road travel, the higher-frequency actions often happen at daytime stops: whether the stroller must come out, whether the camera bag needs to move first and whether jackets or shared items get trapped behind luggage.
High-frequency items should not live permanently under the suitcases
If an item may be retrieved several times in a day, it should not be treated like ordinary hotel luggage.
Once the stroller or camera bag is buried behind the suitcases, the cost is not a few extra seconds. It is repeatedly rebuilding the whole access order.
Set the frequency layers first, then fine-tune the unload order inside them
A stronger system is to define one daytime access layer and one hotel-arrival layer before deciding exact left-right or front-back placement.
That usually preserves daytime efficiency without making the evening unload chaotic.
Only when daytime retrieval is rare does pure unload-order packing become the better trade
If the route barely uses the stroller, has few photography stops and treats those items as low-frequency backup, a hotel-first arrangement can be perfectly reasonable.
But once high-frequency access is already expected, protecting that access is usually worth more.