I seem to be in what looks like an unusual situation: I need to learn to pack less efficiently.<\/p>\n
In spring 2004, when I was panicking at the sudden realization that my non-refundable ticket to CDG in Paris would not be paired with friendly free housing on the beach, I started trying to figure out how to survive for a month with one backpack. In urban Europe, with marginal money, that isn’t hard to do: wonderful sites like Art of Travel<\/a>, One Bag<\/a>, and Travelite<\/a> introduced me to freedom from luggage.<\/p>\n My trip to Brazil this week complicates matters. It seems, for some reason, to be harder to pack light when taking various items for family and a laptop. I should be able to pack it all in just over the carry-on and personal item allowance, but I don’t want to check a mostly empty bag (asking for trouble) or a mostly full bag (asking to lose my stuff).<\/p>\n Right now the best-sounding solution involves abusing compression straps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seem to be in what looks like an unusual situation: I need to learn to pack less efficiently. In spring 2004, when I was panicking at the sudden realization that my non-refundable ticket to CDG in Paris would not be paired with friendly free housing on the beach, I started trying to figure out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil06","tag-brazil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}