Travel
Perspective on the minutiae of my own life.
I started in the spring of 2012, right before my daughter was born, with a trip to Dublin. It’s been an essential part of my life since.
There are people with far longer lists of places than mine, but an exhaustive rap sheet of everywhere I’ve been has never been much of a goal. For me it’s about experiencing how other people live, and coming home with some perspective on the minutiae of my own.
Given the choice, I would rather be in the middle seat of a cramped six-hour flight over an ocean than in an expensive chair looking at an expensive screen. I fly cheap, always. Napkin’s parser got written on one of those flights, somewhere over the Atlantic.
Trips keeps the record of where and when. Places is what I’d tell a friend to go and see once they’re there.
What I Carry
The foundation is a Minaal Carry-On 2.0. I can’t think of how it would be better for the way I travel.
Their system for storing clothes fits how I pack, and my Wardrobe is built to suit it: three shirts, two pants, one accessory, four days of socks and underwear. The rest of what goes in the bag is on the travel kit page.
It’s a costly hobby. I can tell you what a trip costs and not what it’s worth. The worth shows up later, at home, in how much smaller my own problems turn out to be. So I keep going.