Rule #7

“Travel light”

Because the Miata is our only car and it has a mere 5.1 cubic feet sized trunk we have learned to travel light. We’ve taken two week dri­ving vaca­tions in it. But we have learned to pack smart, by tak­ing at most 4 days worth of clothes and using the hotel laun­dry. We have even gone for a long camp­ing week­end car­ry­ing 2 moun­tain bikes with us using the Miata too.

We travel light when fly­ing too. Donna takes a small carry on with the essen­tials and her purse while I carry the lap­top with var­i­ous elec­tron­ics. We check one big bag, so we don’t have to has­sle hunt­ing for an empty over­head bin.

Seems like the only time we don’t pack light is when we go on an overnight trip in the Miata, we always end up tak­ing as much as we do when we go away for a week in it.