I´d definitely recommend against option 3. On my Big Trip the only country I had a guidebook for was Japan, and I regretted that in a big way. Especially on the railway, where guidebooks have a milestone-by-milestone guide to what you´re looking at out the windows, and in China, where I was utterly helpless. I´d be helpless here too without my trusty and already dog-eared Lonely Planet.
And you have a point that when you´ve got the most weight you won´t be needing to carry it.
Eee, travel is exciting. Vicariously as well as personally.
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I´d definitely recommend against option 3. On my Big Trip the only country I had a guidebook for was Japan, and I regretted that in a big way. Especially on the railway, where guidebooks have a milestone-by-milestone guide to what you´re looking at out the windows, and in China, where I was utterly helpless. I´d be helpless here too without my trusty and already dog-eared Lonely Planet.
And you have a point that when you´ve got the most weight you won´t be needing to carry it.
Eee, travel is exciting. Vicariously as well as personally.