Wow, maybe I'm really heading overseas tomorrow. My luggage certainly thinks so. Though I wanted to just take a travel pack --and though everyone gave me the pragmatic advice to "finish packing, then walk around the block, then walk up a big hill, then go home and unpack half of it"-- I'm planning to fly to Qatar with a travel pack and a duffel bag which I'll admit are not terribly comfortable worn in tandem. However, in my defense, I'll point out that the contents of my pack are not mine alone. They're meant to be shared with my brother as we travel together, and some things I can leave in Qatar, which I'm flying through on either end for a few days. Given many iterations of advice rehashing "don't stay in the cheapo hotels" I
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