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It is a modest "rise", but recently I became a journeyman and to celebrate that I would like to start a thread that I hope will make us know each other a little more.
Most of us when we travel take along a bag, a briefcase,or a carry-on that we keep with us on the plane, or a train, or a bus and in it we usually have a book, and or a magazine, and a notebook of some sort.
If you have a bag like this what would be the book in it, and in the magazine, what article is your dog's ear on, in your notebook is their a phrase or a paragraph that you have penned in that you think is just so memorable or maybe so elegant that it is worth keeping.
Please update your entrees as the things in your valise change and if you have another gem added to your notebook.
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f you have a bag like this what would be the book in it,Congratulations, chronist, your descent down that well-intentioned highway is picking up steam.  Depending on the length of the journey, the book in my bag would be either The Bible, The Lord of the Rings, or one of The Guide series. I never carry a notebook, as my writing looks "like the footprints of a spider that had had one too many of whatever it is that spiders have on a night out"
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I am never without a notebook, and much of it is linguistic: adjectives of "parallelepiped", first uses of "multiverse", original meaning of "dogsbody", etymology of "pony".
I'm terrified of its falling into the wrong hands, because at the moment it contains all the passwords for my secret alternative accounts on Internet forums.
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On my way out, I normally don't carry any book - while on the way back, I carry the one(s) I bought there because I fancy they are not available at home..
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a valise? a article of luggage one encounters in books!
I carry a a pocketbook for my wallet, tissues, pens, charge cards and other junk (including, always-- a flashlight, and a "leatherman" tool), and usually my Palm but if i am traveling-- i will also have a tote-- with NYTimes, and the current issues of the The Economist, and the New Yorker--and sometimes an other magazine.. If it is a vacation trip-- it will also have a novel-- something from best sellers list..(and more tissues, and a bottle of water) --and some other magazines-- maybe Scientific American or New York, or some other magazine that catches my fancy-- anything from Better Homes and Gardens to Wired.
If it's a long trip, my clothing will either be in a garment bag, or in my "rolling cart" (a carry on sized bag with built in wheels/handle) a business trip might include my laptop. Other wise it might be in a soft sided suitcase.
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Well, Timely Time traveller, your "modest rise" is, it would seem, a suitable "case" for celebration!
My travelling bag, besides carrying necessary sustenance for the body (I'm too mean to pay train buffet prices - especially for beer!) will have a copy of the day's Guardian, the latest copy of Classic Car magazine (I used to take it every month, but since I became an impoverished academic, I only buy it for train or bus journeys.)
If I take a book, it will be a history book, from which I will be researching my latest set of lectures. But it is much more likely that I will have a pile of scripts to mark: I find the train is one of the best places of all for marking, because no-one interrupts me.
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Man, how often do you guys travel? I find that I only make substantial trips (long enough to need reading material) maybe twice per year. And it's either by car or by plane. There are no trains in Newfoundland. As for the rest of Canada, train service isn't much used, because it's expensive and slow. There is a lot of space between cities here!
I always buy myself a "junk" magazine, since I travel so rarely. It's kind of a treat for the trip. Usually something like Cosmopolitan. Then my husband and I read the quizzes out loud in the car and make fun of them. Quite a riot! ("Are you too stuck-up?" or "Do you know how to keep secrets?" or "What kind of man is the right one for you?") And I always get my books from the library, since they are awfully expensive, and I am just a student.
As my carry-on luggage on the plane, I would carry my a "knapsack" or my new cute little soft-sided briefcase called a "carry-all" (I don't really like that word) .
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I carry a spare pair of knickers, in case they lose my luggage.
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Let's see ... my purse has wallet, small cosmetics bag for things like a comb, nail file, a few safety pins and a very tiny Swiss Army thingie, gloves, passport, boarding pass a real fabric handkerchief, etc. For long trips by car or plane (I get seasick ) I carry my old fashioned "cosmetic case" which holds prescription drugs, hair stuff in travel sizes, dentifrices, soft slippers that can double as evening slippers, nightgown, a cotton caftan that folds into nothing, one extra pair stockings, one pair Tilley briefs, one of Tilley's dressy outfits which doesn't wrinkle and folds into no-space-at-all, several silk scarfs and a bathing suit. I also wear a tailored Tilley outfit and my never-leave-home-without-it Tilley hat. Should my checked luggage be delayed I can "do and go" for a long time with just what's in the case and what I'm wearing. I usually buy a paperback book in the airport, generally a shortish mystery story or a collection of short stories. My travel-life was simplified greatly when I discovered Tilley's! http://www.tilley.com
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I don't like to bring a lot of luggage anywhere, which works out fine as long as i'm going someplace tropical. my carryon always contains a puzzle book and a pen (hi, F-babe!), whatever novel i'm reading at the time (for my trip last weekend it was Guns Germs & Steel and Professor & The Madman, which i left too close to the rising tide while i took off on a wakeboarding expedition, so it's now two inches thick and showing signs of mold  ), a spare bikini in case my luggage is lost (i guess that's kinda like Anna's knickers), a box of altoids (which i compulsively chew) and a pack of gum (which i NEVER chew, b/c i think it makes people look like cows, but i use it if i can't clear my ears during takeoffs and landings). i don't carry a purse at all; i just have a little tiny zippered pouch that's attached to my keys where i keep cash, my driver's license, ATM card and a credit card or two (at the moment these are all lost, since my sons enjoy playing with my keys) and a tube of lip gloss. i always bring a journal to record memories of my trip, mostly the things that made me laugh, or a sketch or two of a scene i don't want to forget.
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spare bikini in case my luggage is lost
Bridget, that is such a great travel tip. Knickers, you cannot really wear to the beach, but a bikini will be acceptable in many more places.
I am readying for a trip to Montana this June and in my valise will be
Penelope Fitzgerald's "The Blue Flower",
my Harper's magazine April issue will be bookmarked on David Foster Wallace's article "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage"
In my notebook will be some thoughts from Pascal on living in the present.
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This thread reminds me the following quote
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If I'm travelling nationally, I have a change of underwear, socks and a shirt, plus toothpaste and brush in my briefcase. These sometimes sit there for weeks at a time. Books are superfluous, the plane flights are all less of an hour or less.
Internationally, I typically carry a laptop bag (sans laptop) with documentation and a couple of books as well - usually historical fiction and/or sci-fi (although there's little knew in that area these days). Plus the aforementioned underwear, etc.
For the upcoming trip, I'll have a laptop bag (with laptop). But the new bag is big enow for the rest as well. plus a money belt for important things like cash and credit cards.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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emanuela>>>
This thread reminds me the following quote
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
emanuela,
I collect quotes having to do with travel and this one will be a lovely addition. It reminds me an article I read on a plane some years ago in an inflight magazine, The American Airlines Flight Magazine, October 2, 1996. I would like to share it with you.
"The principle is the presence of absence, the philosophy is less is more, the goal is minimal living and peace.
Man's desire for freedom that comes with order and calm has existed throughout history.
However much they covet or collect material things, people are sympathetic to the idea of travelling light.
By paring down --"travelling light"--we create something better and stronger. When something cannot be improved upon by subtracting from it, when a thing has been reduced to its essential, there is the perfection of minimum. And the beauty of simplicity.
And that is the beauty we need not be ashamed to be preoccupied with. It's been the preoccupation of philosophers and spritual leaders for centuries. And it's a recurring ideal shared by many cultures, all looking for liberation from the dead weight of an excess in possessions.
Disciplining that impulse to clutter our lives offers the hope of selflessness, unworldliness, and tranquility. It offers a chance to be in touch with the essence of existence rather than the distractions of the trivial--a chance, in other words, to be free.
Thoughts of John Pawson, a minimalist architect
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To travel successfully :
take half the clothes and twice the money.
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That is SO beautiful!
Let me reply with some other quotes - mostly from AWAD archives - close to that.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.
Walter Pater
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yu-t'ang
Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, J
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I recently heard/read a quote by, I believe, Seneca, and attributed by him to Zeno. Apparently Zeno was travelling from one great city to another, and his travelling satchel was lost.
"It appears," said he, "that the gods wish me to be a less-encumbered philosopher."
Kind of puts lost luggage in perspective, and is another recommendation for traveling light.
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