travel light

Idioms  

1. Take little baggage; also, be relatively free of responsibilities or deep thoughts, as in I can be ready in half an hour; I always travel light, or I don't want to buy a house and get tied down; I like to travel light, or It's hard to figure out whom they'll attack next, because ideologically they travel light. The literal use dates from the 1920s, the figurative from the mid-1900s.

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Example Sentences

Travel light, says Tom Lionvale, a backpacking instructor and adjunct faculty member at College of the Sequoias in California.

From Washington Times • May 8, 2018

They were living out a new family motto: Travel light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Travel light, so far as your own personal belongings are concerned, lighter than you've ever imagined you could.

From If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime by Labor, United States Department of