Pack Light-Lightweight Travel

It's time to start packing for your trip. Gather everything you'd like to take and then place each item in one of three piles: Essential, less than essential and optional. Here's the tough part: eliminate the third pile entirely and about half of the second pile. It sounds drastic at first, but this exercise will begin the process of carrying as little as possible on a trip. Some hear this advice and dismiss it as impractical. But what is far more impractical is carrying too much "stuff." The biggest packing errors almost always involve "too much" rather than "not enough." It's important to be realistic at the very start of the packing process and take along only the essential items for your trip.