Travel Light With Only a Regular JanSport Backpack, From My Experience at Dragon*Con 2011 in Atlanta

When I flew to Atlanta for Dragon*Con 2011 this past weekend, I only carried a regular sized two pocket JanSport school backpack [pictured above]. Like many other folks, I have discovered the joy of lightweight traveling. As Y and I discovered during our trip to Europe over the Summer, carrying fewer things makes travel a …

Going to Poland for Annual SFRA Meeting? Travel Tips for Less Luggage from onebag.com

If you are traveling to Poland for the annual Science Fiction Research Association conference in July, you may want to follow some of the advice on OneBag.com by Doug Dyment for lighter baggage tips: Theres no question: overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes.Thus this Web site, which offers exhaustive some might say exhausting! …

Notes from Taiwan, and Blog Post 700

For my 700th post on dynamicsubspace.net, I wanted to include my initial notes on Y’s and my trip to visit my in-laws in Taiwan. We flew Continental from Jacksonville to Houston to Narita, Japan to Taipei, Taiwan. I particularly enjoyed the flight to Narita, even though I was very tired at the end, because we …