Advice from Ubertramp

“Be a One Bag Wonder – Travel light, travel happy. Cut down on your belongings and life will become so much simpler. Firstly, it makes the mechanics of getting from A to B easier and less stressful. Easier because it’s less weight to be humping around between transport and accommodation and also less size and weight to be swinging around within the confines of a densely populated bus. It becomes less stressful because the smaller your luggage is, the less likely it is that you will be separated from it during journeys– and, judging everybody else by my own pitifully low standards, the less there is of it to forget or lose! In addition, it’s more likely you will be let on an already packed out bus if you have less baggage. This doesn’t ring true in Guatemala however, as you can always fit one more person on the bus, no matter how full it already is.” — ubertramp.com