This! Is! Athens!

My best friend marvels at my ability to travel.  "I don't know anybody who packs as light as you do," he says.  If I can't carry it, I don't need it that badly.  For 5-7 days (in the urban wilds of Toronto, because let's be honest, camping would look a little different), I pack in a regular school backpack and the WWII musette bag that I use as my usual bag- clothes in the backpack, everything else in the bag.  It's great, I don't have to check a bag and I can maneuver public transportation in rush hour without being that asshole with the enormous bag.  Wheelie bags with handles are great in airports.  That is the only place they are great.  

Moving struck me as a challenge.  This time, the laptop has to come, and so should at least two pairs of shoes, clothes for all weather and possibly towels.  The usual bags were not going to suffice, but the ability to manouever by myself was imperative.  The largest bag I could find, without wheels, that fit within Greyhound's luggage requirements and carries like a backpack was a GI duffle.  I went down to the army surplus store to check it out.  Normally, I need to visit a product in person before I buy it (this is the specific reason that I don't own any very expensive sex toys, too).  The shop was out of almost every single type of bag when I went to look, but since the price was ten bucks less than the list price online before shipping, and even that was a lower price than I'd seen on any normal civilian travel bag, cheapness beat out.  

While waiting for it to come in, I've been assuming that the total capacity would be something on the lines of a laundry basket.  I picked it up this afternoon.  I can fit two queen sized blankets and two pillows in there and it's still not packed full.  I've been collecting cookie boxes from work for the last two weeks (they're brilliant, they're about 12X7X9, which means that they're cheap to ship and even a five year old can carry them around) and assuming that I was going to need more than ten, but if I can get a full wardrobe in that bag, all I have to pack are some kitchen stuff and heavy winter stuff.  This is good.  

It feels like this is going to work.