[brudgers]

To the degree I have a difference of opinion, it is around the idealization of planning and packing light.

I believe the most excellent choices are best made on the ground and the expedition is a great way to explore.

The airport genericizes travel. It removes distance and vastness and remoteness.

Flying gives you an MP3 - and that may be good enough - but it is not the band playing live in someone’s living room.

Getting there puts the flyer among travelers very much similar dealing with very much the same things at the same time. Airport food, flight delays, seat pitch, luggage limitations, etc., etc.

Traveling light as virtue is heavy baggage exchanged for a 61 key synth and a worn tea kettle.

YMMV.