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Chain-Saw the Guide Books - Regional Travel
Traveler's Guide to The Axe.
Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks
Guidebooks are heavy. Too heavy. Regional travel, going to multiple countries, adds to the carry-on. Solution: The Great Chop. The Axe. And plastic bags with zippers and rubber bands inside..
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Axe, Aigen, near Rohrbach, Austria, Axe thrown by St. Stephen (not this one) to locate a church site
Step one. Cut up the books.
Separate out the countries (as in Scandinavian guidebooks that cover Norway, Sweden and Finland); or, if you are going to Northern Germany and still have the book from going to Southern Germany, slice out the south and leave it home. Find your big serrated kitchen knife and saw those books right down the binding. Make piles. Denmark here, Sweden there, Northern Germany there. Go ahead. Saw-saw.
Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks
Guidebooks are heavy. Too heavy. Regional travel, going to multiple countries, adds to the carry-on. Solution: The Great Chop. The Axe. And plastic bags with zippers and rubber bands inside..
.
Axe, Aigen, near Rohrbach, Austria, Axe thrown by St. Stephen (not this one) to locate a church site
Step one. Cut up the books.
Separate out the countries (as in Scandinavian guidebooks that cover Norway, Sweden and Finland); or, if you are going to Northern Germany and still have the book from going to Southern Germany, slice out the south and leave it home. Find your big serrated kitchen knife and saw those books right down the binding. Make piles. Denmark here, Sweden there, Northern Germany there. Go ahead. Saw-saw.
