the weight of their luggage

"People always make the mistake of taking too many clothes on a journey, half killing themselves with the weight of their luggage, and then, if they have any sense, always wearing the same things when they get there, Now I've been travelling on my own account for over thirty years, I told myself, yet I still always take too much at the last moment. But on this journey, which will possibly—indeed almost certainly—be my last, I thought, I won't take too much. That at least was my intention."

~~ from Concrete by Thomas Bernhard