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Travel is a wonderful analogy to the freedom of minimalist living. Think about what a pain it is [to drag around two or three heavy suitcases when you're on vacation].

3. You've anticipated the trip for ages, and when you disembark from your plane you can't wait to explore the sights. Not so fast — first you have to wait (and wait and wait) for your bags to appear on the luggage carousel.
Disembark 내리다 sight 관광지
Luggage carousel 수화물 컨베이어 벨트

4. Next, you need to haul them through the airport
Next, you need to haul them through the airport. You might as well head to the taxi stand, as maneuvering them on the subway would be nearly impossible.
Haul 끌다 maneuver 이동시키다

5. And forget about getting a jump on sightseeing — you must head directly to your hotel, to rid yourself of this enormous burden. When you finally reach it, you collapse in exhaustion.
Get a jump 빨리 시작하다
Rid oneself of 벗어나다
exhaustion 기진맥진 Collapse vs collide

6. Minimalism, on the other hand, makes it easy [to move from place to place]. Imagine traveling with only a light backpack instead — the experience is positively exhilarating.
Positively 분명히 exhilarating 매우 신나는

7. You arrive at your destination, leap off the plane, and zip by the crowds awaiting their luggage. You then jump on the subway, catch a bus, or start walking in the direction of your hotel.
Leap off 뛰어내리다 zip by 지나가다

8. Along the way, you experience all the sights, sounds, and smells of a foreign city, with the time and energy to savor it all. You're mobile, flexible, and free as a bird — able to carry your bag to museums and tourist sites, and keep it in a locker when need be.
Savor 맛보다

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In 1998, when Enrique Penalosa became mayor of Bogota, Colombia, he began transforming the quality of urban life with a vision of a city (designed for people).

10. Under his leadership, the city established or renovated 1,299 parks, introduced a highly successful rapid transit system, built hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes and pedestrian paths, reduced traffic congestion by 40 percent, planted one hundred thousand trees, and involved local citizens directly in the improvement (of their neighborhoods).

11. Even though Colombia is a strife-torn country wracked (by decades of civil war and a devastating poverty rate), the streets (of this city of eight million inhabitants) became safer than those of Washington, D.C.
Strife-torn 분쟁으로 분열된 Wrack 괴롭히다
Devastate 대단히 파괴적인

12. Penalosa's views aren't applicable only in Latin America
Penalosa's views aren't applicable only in Latin America. They are deeply relevant to the quality of life in towns and cities in the United States, too. "High quality public pedestrian space in general, and parks in particular," he says, "are evidence of true democracy at work."
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13. The reason (that parks and public spaces are important to a democratic society, he says), is "because they are the only places where people meet as equals… Parks are as essential to the physical and emotional health of a city as the water supply."

14. Most city and state budgets, of course, allot infinitely more money and other resources to roads than to parks. "Why," Penalosa asks, "are the public spaces for cars deemed more important than the public spaces for children?"