Quote from Lorelai in Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
Lorelai: And wuss patrol, halt. Rory: I've never known such pain. Lorelai: We are so not walking around Europe with those annoying things on our backs. Rory: But we're backpacking through Europe. How're we gonna do this without backpacks? Lorelai: But all the time we've talked about backpacking, I never actually pictured us with backpacks. Rory: What were you picturing? Lorelai: Spry, accommodating European men with neat mustaches trailing after us, carrying our luggage, hailing taxi cabs, constantly reminding us how beautiful we are. Rory: No, it's just the two of us humping our backpacks around.