Fitting all of your travel possessions into one piece of luggage small enough for an overhead locker saves time and reduces the chance of losing your belongings enroute.
Fitting all of your travel possessions into one piece of luggage small enough for an overhead locker saves time and reduces the chance of losing your belongings en route. But too often we give into doubts: am I bringing enough? How will I squeeze it all in? What do I leave out? But it’s easier than you think, so read on, and you’ll soon be waving goodbye to the baggage carousel…
Why do it?
“Freedom,” says Wanderlust’s editor-in-chief Lyn Hughes, who co-founded this magazine after returning from a trip around South America with just hand luggage. “You are more mobile with one piece of luggage,” she advises, “and it allows you to focus more on the reason you’re travelling: the experience.”
It also ensures there’s no need to hang around the baggage carousel when you arrive, meaning you can start your trip faster. It’s safer, too, allowing you to keep your bags close when travelling on public transport, like buses, while others have to stow their’s underneath or at the front.
“Carrying just hand luggage makes it simpler to travel from place to place,” adds Susan Walsh, author of Pack Light! Start Your Solo Adventure Right. “Heavy hold luggage weighs you down; managing just one bag saves your body a lot of strain.”
How many clothes do you really need?
While you can never be completely sure of the weather or the situations you might find yourself in, many people overcompensate to avoid being left short. But you don’t have to.
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Wanderlust Travel Magazine.
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