I've scrapped most of my items and set up a shortcut to my save files in order to keep an eye on the situation.

Currently none of my saves are over 5MB, but I may have been close to 8 MB before I decided to pare down my inventory.

Anyway, has anyone else who went as a nomad tried to return to the little town that they started the game in? I made some attempts to pass through the border checkpoint and failed miserably thanks to the 2 dozen skull indicated border guards. This is by far the toughest fight I've found in the game, I can manage to kill a handful and draw them out in a chase, or almost run through in a motorcycle, but eventually I gave up and will return when I've gained another 10 levels or so.