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Starting tomorrow, travel writer Rolf Potts will embark on a trip that will take him around the world without using a single piece of luggage. This post will explain how he’s going to do it, and there’s a kick-ass giveaway at the end…
For six weeks he will explore 12 countries on five continents, crossing the equator four times, without carrying so much as a man-purse. The few items he does bring will be tucked away in his pockets. Though he’s a seasoned minimalist traveler (famous from his book Vagabonding), he usually travels with a single overhead-bin-perfect backpack, the Eagle Creek Thrive 65L. It’s been his go-to bag for the last 3-4 years.
So why attempt to travel the world with no luggage at all?
Rolf sees his journey as a real-time experiment in traveling ultra-light, and “a field-test for a more philosophical idea — that what we experience in life is more important than what we bring with us.”
While circumnavigating the globe with no luggage sounds like a clear enough proposition, it can raise a few semantic issues. What, for example, counts as a bag? Rolf has set up a set of ground rules to guide his own journey, including:
- No bags on the journey (not even a man-purse or grocery store bag, unless the latter is used en route to a meal).
- No borrowing items from his cameraman or using his cameraman as a pack mule.
- Borrowing or buying items along the way is permitted but excludes bags.
Since most people don’t travel with a film crew, Rolf’s advice for the average no-baggage traveler is a bit broader than the rules he’s set for himself. Here are 8 key tips from Rolf on how to plan and execute a no-luggage journey.
In Rolf’s words…
1) Manage the journey from your mobile phone.
Everybody loves sunset, but it takes couple of minutes before Sun finally disappear. I was thinking today. Because there is no actual sunset but actually it is spinning of the World, than we can follow sunsets in different countries that have different time zones.
So what if we get people video the sunset in their own countries and broadcast online simultaneously from the website we will set-up for this purpose. We will add one video to another as the Sun goes down until we will have 1 HOUR constant SUNSET !!
Three minutes duration of sunset videos will require 20 countries in sequence to make this happen. 20 country is nothing to internet 
Imagine 1 HOUR SUNSET . . . Imagine WORLD join TOGETHER in the sunset . . . Imagine YOU are PART of it . . .
Please add your comment and feedback. My idea is so fresh, yet crude. But non of them can drop my level of excitement about this
Many thanks
tagmac
tagmac82@yahoo.com
PS. Please share to see how far it goes, please share to experience power of sharing.
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