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The number one tip for easier travel has to be: NO LUGGAGE! I know what I am talking about. Numerous times I have traveled from America to Asia with nothing but my belt-bag. I always feel quite amused watching people struggle with their luggage.

Getting it through customs, hauling it down the length of the airport, (usually more than once) struggling with the luggage down the airplane aisle, hoisting it up to the baggage compartments, and then the most comical part of all, trying to get the baggage compartment lid shut. Never being able to do so even after many more struggles and adjusting their own baggage and the other people's baggage that is in there, and usually finally having to allow the stewards and/or stewardesses to force the baggage compartment lid shut!

At the end of the flight, all this begins again, going the other way, baggage falling on heads as the baggage compartment door flies open, pulling the baggage out of the compartment, hauling it down the plane aisle, through the airport, through customs, into the cab and never being able to get the trunk shut until the driver has to do it! HILARIOUS! Compare this to my method of just stopping by a mall as I leave the destination airport (for example in Manila, Philippines) and buying all the clothes I will need for less than the "BAGGAGE PEOPLE" pay to have theirs washed!

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