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The Long Trip: Leave the Crap at Home

January 4, 2006 at 11:27 AM | by | Comments (3)


Packing for a extensive trip is an art: according to writer Tom Leffel, "The trick is to only bring things you can't find locally and to bring things that are lighter, smaller, cheaper, or of better quality than what you could find where you are going." His other tips, variations on that theme, are all good, but the one about going cold turkey on electronics is also poignant: "It's hard to mingle with the locals when the gadgets in your hands are worth more than their whole family makes in a year. [. . . . Consider] what's truly important--as a personal music player and camera are for most travelers--and leave the rest in the office or at home."

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Packing for trip?

I am completely agreed with your comments. But everyone is having his/her unique style. If I had an opportunity for packing for a trip it would be: there is no such thing as too many bathing suits or shorts. Pack these in abundance because they take up such little space.
If you are for the most part setting up a beach holiday, take the whole thing that you would get if you were going to the same type of trip in your home country. Do not rely on buying it to the place – where you are going for a trip.

I strappingly suggest women pack a small number of different bathing suits for their trip. While alternative communities put up bathing suits for sale, they are over and over again the smaller sizes for very young women and are often very costly. Supplementary bathing suits let you to be dressed in a fresh dry one at the same time as the other is on the line.

We pack clothes and shoes for all family members to take pleasure in special dinners or events. While fewer formal than eating dinner at home, we eat dinner at places that would scowl on bathing suits and thongs. Also we take pleasure in getting worn dressy clothes particularly subsequent to wide-ranging rough camping or boon docking.

Kids usually getting fed up and they just don't be pleased about the panorama as much as adults do. We have to bring stuff for the kids to do so they won't fight, will learn something and at the very least, will keep them entertained. As passionate as it sounds we bring movies or taped TV programs.


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Great tips! I guess what you really need on a trip are the cards. Even with an empty luggage, you could get most of the necessities over at a foreign country. I always get to see people drawing their huge luggage when travelling abroad. I still couldn't get it why. It's seems that they're running for life/ shift home, more than going for a holiday.

Luggage

If it can't fit in the overhead, it's not a bag I like to bring. Avoiding baggage claim every time is my dream.

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