You expect to be able to trust them with your life; trusting them with your luggage should be a no-brainer.

25-day journey to the sweetest places in Japan.

It is 5 am, I’m jet-lagged, and I can’t fall back asleep. I’ve just returned from a 25-day trip to Japan: it was one of the best experiences I’ve had in my life.

Maybe I’m the only one, but I don’t get to travel nearly as much as I’d like to. I attribute this to an involuntarily ingrained attitude toward travel as something that happens “when everything else is taken care of,” which hardly ever comes around. Rolf Potts presents a different take in a book called Vagabonding.