If you took a camera, a music player, books, a flashlight, a phrase book and travel guides with you then you would not be being minimalist. Replacing them with

If you took a camera, a music player, books, a flashlight, a phrase book and travel guides with you then you would not be being minimalist. Replacing them with one tool is physically more minimalist, but in terms of distractions or intellectual 'stuff' about the same.