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I once travelled through about 8 countries in Asia over two months. I was recently looking at the backpack I had used for that trip and remembered that it was
by damon_c 13y ago
I once travelled through about 8 countries in Asia over two months. I was recently looking at the backpack I had used for that trip and remembered that it was literally half filled with lonely planet/history/language books that must have weighed about 20 lbs. That is hard to imagine these days.
- jhull 13y agoTo put that in perspective: I just backpacked a year abroad on a 14 country tour through Africa, India and Southeast Asia with my (now) fiancee. On our first day in Rwanda a guy gave us the entire 2007 Lonely Planet series (like 90 countries) in PDF format that we put on our Kindle. They were 5 years old and using a Kindle for large PDFs is an awful experience, but it saved us about 100 pounds of weight.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoHence she had the ipad mini, just 308 grams (0.68 pounds)!!