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An Introduction To How Your “Travel Attitudes” Will Shape Your Choice Of Luggage (And Your Manner Of Travel)

This article originally appeared at Veritrope.com

Every one of us has assumptions and attitudes that shape how we travel, but I had never directly considered my own until I was preparing to pack up and walk out my front door for an indefinite period of time.

Once I committed to making this open-ended trip, I began to ask “What am I going to bring?” and “How am I going to carry it around?” The answers to these (admittedly First World) questions took time to figure out — but what I’ve learned along the way has actually been key to having an enjoyable time while traveling!

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The Answer Depends On Who You Are… And For How Long You’re Gone!

This article originally appeared at Veritrope.com

Almost as soon as I startedplanning our trip around the world, my pleasant day-dreams were disrupted by a recurring image: It was a vision of me lugging my laptop for weeks on end like some sort of modern-day Sisyphus.

I’m a writer and a consultant… and I didn’t want to have to stop my work just because I was traveling for an extended period of time. In fact, being able to work while away was a key part of my travel plans — you know… the part of the plan that helped me pay for the trip.

So, I had basically resigned myself to carrying a laptop when *it* was announced.
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An Introduction to a Series of Posts About An Around The World Trip.

This article originally appeared at Veritrope.com

Forget what T.S. Eliot says about April being the cruelest month — it’s February. In New York City, it’s the time after all the fun holidays have passed and the novelty of the first snowfalls has worn off.

It’s just cold — unremittingly, depressingly cold.

But frozen soil is good for growing at least one thing: my escapist daydreams. During one such February a couple of years ago, my girlfriend Lauren and I started talking about weddings while having dinner at our favorite neighborhood Thai restaurant. It was a time before we were actually engaged, but after it was clear that we were going to be. And it was one of those light — almost incidental — conversations that you have as a couple that throw off some longer-lasting insights which help you figure out how you both think and feel about things.

But I’m making it sound heavier and more portentous than it was. It was really as much a way to pass the time on a cold winter night as anything else.

A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With Me Shooting My Mouth Off

Probably primed by both the warm surroundings and the Chicken Curry Puffs, I asked Lauren if she had ever heard of an Around-the-World airline ticket.

“Wait…They sell those?”

“Yeah. They do.”

Without giving it much forethought, I think I then said something like this:
“What if — instead of spending a ton of money on a wedding — we just spent it all on a honeymoon trip traveling around the world?”

Lauren just looked at me blankly. Crickets.
Then she said “We totally have to do that!

And so we have.

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Why Am I Not In Argentina Right Now?

It’s been less than two months since returning from Argentina to the nearly unrelenting sub-zero temperatures of New York.

In other words, two months of checking the weather report in Buenos Aires, remembering the crispy perfection of a good empanada, and weeping quietly to myself as South American friends post their pictures from the beach on Facebook.

Here are two things that I’m using to ease my transition back to the North American tundra:

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