Travel Light

There are many reasons to "travel light"

• Security: By not having to check baggage (or otherwise entrust it to the care of others), you are much less likely to lose same (or its contents) to theft, damage, or misrouting. Would that peace of mind were always so easily acquired!
• Economy: You don't have to pay porters and the like to carry stuff around for you, and you will be more able to take public transportation, rather than taxis and limos (where you often pay extra for luggage). You can even walk. All of which will also bring you into more intimate (and thus rewarding) contact with the places you have come to visit.
• Mobility: You needn't get to the airport as early. You can more easily deal with delayed flights and missed connections (because you can take alternate flights without worrying about what will happen to your belongings). You can travel as an air courier. You can sell your seat (by volunteering to be "bumped") on full flights. You will be among the first to leave the airport for your destination, while others wait for baggage delivery and long customs inspection queues. You can board trains with alacrity. And you won't feel compelled to take the first hotel room offered; you can easily walk out when the person at the reception counter quotes too high a price. ntact with the places you have come to visit.