My plan is very very much to ditch things en route.
Basically, given how many countries I'm going through en route, I have 3 options: 1. Take all the guidebooks, ditch them as I go. Advantage: someone else can use them when I abandon them. Disadvantage: weight. This will definitely happen to the Trans-Siberian books. 2. Razor out the relevant pages (since I'm only going to a couple of places in each country) & leave the rest at home. Advantage: less weight. Disadvantage: books kinda ruined for further use, passing on, etc. 3. Not bother with any guidebooks at all. I do not think I quite have the nerve for this, especially in countries where I don't speak the language(s) at all :-)
I'm intending to take the System of the World trilogy with to finally reread, but those I'm going to get second-hand & will definitely be abandoning pretty early - tbh I expect to be done with those by the time I get to Beijing, if not before, & I'm spending 90% of that time actually onna train & thus not carting my belongings around, so it doesn't really matter.
Writing paper (at least airmail paper is light) & journal is the other thing. And The Artist's Way since I've started in on that now. Obviously deconstructing my psyche via travel isn't enough...
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Basically, given how many countries I'm going through en route, I have 3 options:
1. Take all the guidebooks, ditch them as I go. Advantage: someone else can use them when I abandon them. Disadvantage: weight. This will definitely happen to the Trans-Siberian books.
2. Razor out the relevant pages (since I'm only going to a couple of places in each country) & leave the rest at home. Advantage: less weight. Disadvantage: books kinda ruined for further use, passing on, etc.
3. Not bother with any guidebooks at all. I do not think I quite have the nerve for this, especially in countries where I don't speak the language(s) at all :-)
I'm intending to take the System of the World trilogy with to finally reread, but those I'm going to get second-hand & will definitely be abandoning pretty early - tbh I expect to be done with those by the time I get to Beijing, if not before, & I'm spending 90% of that time actually onna train & thus not carting my belongings around, so it doesn't really matter.
Writing paper (at least airmail paper is light) & journal is the other thing. And The Artist's Way since I've started in on that now. Obviously deconstructing my psyche via travel isn't enough...