Travel Packing Advice Item #1: Running shoes

Travel Packing Advice Tip 1. This is how you should tie your running shoes to your pack to ensure that they don’t fall off while you’re racing to catch a train in Germany. Downsides: You’ll have to actually run the marathon.
Travel Packing Advice Item #2: Petzl Tikka Headlamp

Travel Packing Advice Tip 2. I didn’t have any photos of just the headlamp. I tried to find a funny photo. I even googled “cats wearing Tikka headlamps.” Nothing. Downsides: It’s really hard to look sexy with a headlamp on. You’ll inevitably blind people while trying to talk to them.
Travel Packing Advice Item #3: Scarf

Travel Packing Advice Tip 3. It was windy. Downsides: Sometimes gets caught in taxi cab doors.
Travel Packing Advice Item #4: Passport

Travel Packing Advice Tip 4. This is what a spy’s passport looks like. Downsides: Completely screwed if you lose it. For U.S. citizens: Hard to pretend you’re Canadian while carrying travel documents emblazoned with USA on them.
Travel Packing Advice Item #5: At least 5 books

Travel Packing Advice Tip 5. I just wanted an excuse to reference one of my favorite contemporary writers. Downsides: You won’t read them. You won’t even look at them during the trip. You’ll wonder why you even brought them. The answer to this question will elude you until you’re packing for your next trip.
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