Packing Light and Lighter

I don't know a whole lotta people who enjoy carrying heavy luggage, but people do it anyway. Yesterday on the train we saw a pack of young Canadian tourists struggling with huge packs, grunting mightily as they lifted them into the overhead compartments. How ungainly.

Let me tell you, it's a joy jumping off the train and exploring a city without having lots of luggage weighing you down. I'm thinkin' that some day we'll just buy what clothes we need as we go. The trend has actually started here in Italy--in Umbria in fact. Yes, Umbrians have thong dispensers. Cheap, too.

Thongs aside, I've thought that becoming a nudist and getting an FKK tatoo on my chest might solve the luggage problem. I'd have to live somewhere like Vienna, where reader Wolfgang gives detailed instructions to the Vienna FKK Nudist "Beach", where "there are some restaurants on the dam in the area of the nudist beach where it is no problem to dine nude."

But then again, unless you carry a purse, how ya gonna keep money to pay? And if you carry a purse with money in it you still have to watch your bag--not to mention you'll be tempted to carry a camera and maybe a little something to lighten your mood plus a pair of shoes if the footpath gets nasty--and thus you'd be back to square one.

Bummer.