Article: Traveling Light Always a Plus // Readers Learn Hard Lessons From Their Luggage Mishaps

Airlines lost it. Or mangled it. Sometimes our readers made it to Bora-Bora or Buenos Aires while their bags flew home. But all of our respondents came through with flying colors - even if their bags didn't.

And they're better people because of the character-building experience. At the very least, they travel with an extra pair of underwear in their pocket.

This month's Readers' Forum winners of Rand McNally Map & Travel Store gift certificates are Shirley Connelly of Merrionette Park ($75), Nora Torres of Schaumburg ($50) and Sandra A. Wilson of Norridge ($25). FIRST PRIZE

Packing light is an art. One that I have not mastered.

I was traveling at Christmastime to the Galapagos ...

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