How little can you get away with ? Cutting Down
Just saw the thread on poleless tents and it got me thinking about how little you actually need to take on a trip.
My usual technique is to pack then half what i pack and then loose some more bits. I use this method wether I am flying, driving, cycling /motor or push and hiking. Even so I still take way too much stuff and when I return home I always think next time I will do better. My only worry is that one day I will have cut down so much that I have become the naked rambler. I will trip up catch my john tomas on a rock and not have a first aid kit to patch myself up.
So what tips have you got and how light do you go ?
I am well practiced with sporking/fooning around what other muti impliments are there out there ?
The lightest traveler I ever met was a chap in malaysia, he had the clothes he was wearing a book a tooth brush and a pair of swim trunks. I enquired how he got by and he said it was easy. When the clothes needed washing he went sunbathing and when hed finished the book he swapped it with someone else. Come to think of it he was also growing a long beard but then you can get a shave in most far off lands for next to nowt. 
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