I always traveled with my backpack half full of books. Like a lot of devoted readers I have a real fear of running out of something to read. I had guidebooks, Spanish books, classics, space operas, spy novels, chess books, detective novels, you name it, I had it. I read War and Peace in a hammock on a beach in Mexico. Trigonometry Made Simple kept me occupied in Bolivia for a while.
T raveling offers the chance to read.
You don't have to be to be at work in the morning. No one is going to call. You'll have lots of time on your hands. Read a book. America is a long way from Paris.