Early this morning, as I was making my way to the airport I ran into a neighbor while waiting for the elevator. After exchanging a friendly greetings she observed: “You look like you’re about to climb a mountain”.
Grinning, I replied: “As a matter of fact…”.
I’m a light traveler. Really, I am. When flying I rarely check luggage and usually only carry a small bag and a day pack. For this adventure, I tried to pare down to the essential, but I ended up with two rather larger bags and a day pack. However, considering I’m packing hiking poles, a sleeping bag, food, cold weather and scuba diving gear, I suppose I did pretty well. That’s a lot of luggage to carry around, but when you have a mountain to climb…