The Many Facets of Travel Lights
By Lou Jones
Straphanging on an overcrowded Green Line subway, squeezed between a too young
mother with baby stroller and a hipster with a too big backpack, I spotted someone
carrying a tote bag with the most cryptic logo stenciled on the side: TRAVEL LIGHT
THINK SMART. I was about to dismiss it until I realized how many ways that message
might be interpreted. I still have no idea what they were advertising but my mind
raced.
1. If you plan on venturing more than three zip codes away from home and don’t want
the hassle, you can enlist travel services. By changing the spelling (Travel LITE), we
derive another name for convenience-based travel. This often is to made-up locales
like Disneyland or Six Flags or household destinations like Paris and Cancun: school
vacation tours, package deals with groups of like-minded tourists and fun-filled
resorts as opposed to hard places with names that have no vowels or are necessary to
look up in a dictionary.
In lieu of hardcore immersion into a new location, these excursions offer enjoyment
from managed sightseeing where most of the amenities are provided. They also
scream for “selfie” photographs to make your friends back home jealous.
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