19 Tips for Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
| October 12, 2016
Don’t over-pack
Bring what you need and nothing more. Do you really need that hat? Why not make buying a new hat one of your goals for your trip? Buy it in Bangkok (you’ve already included it in your budget, after all), wear the heck out of it, get it stained with sweat and salt water, then bring it back home and grin whenever someone asks where you got that battered old thing.
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