Karla Coreil, of Baton Rouge, is on the other end of the packing spectrum. She's a planner like Riley, but she whittles her items down to the bare minimum and has various rules to follow to fit it all ...

Picture yourself breezing through Charles de Gaulle airport, past the baggage carousel, past the stressed couple wrestling a 30-kilogram beast onto a trolley, and straight out into the Paris morning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spending a week on the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa and packing enough to survive it is a bit like playing ...