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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.
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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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