I can't believe how quickly this holiday has come round. It doesn't feel like very long since I got giddy because I had booked the return flights to Vancouver. .. I was going to cram quite a bit more doing things in between finishing college and going away but somehow what with sleeping, reading, dancing (why not/) and generally pottering time has marched by at rather a quick pace. I have made do and mended my rucksack/pull along thing it looks extremely well traveled now - tastefully trimmed up nicely with super glue and gorilla tape. At least no one will steal it - mind you if they do they will be deeply disappointed as this kind of camping road trip calls for old 'past it' clothes that may not make it home, so apart from a couple of new cheap tee shirts it really hold the dregs of my wardrobe and of course our tent, home for the next few weeks - see previous blog for glorious Technicolor image....
On our last big trip - we took our gap year aged 55 and went round the world - I realised that the art of packing light is a good skill to have -basically you pack all the clothes you think you need and then take most of it out to make room for all the camera, techno equipment you need, plus chargers wet wipes, and skin so soft bug spray- the IMPORTANT stuff!!! - however the biggest lesson learnt was that three pairs of knickers (wear one wash one dry one) - is not enough!!!! When you wear a pair of knickers every three days they soon drop to bits, depending on where you are travelling this may present problems fortunately mine lasted until we got to San Francisco where there is an abundance of knicker shops. I wasn't so lucky with my kindle as that melted in the middle of the Australian outback, surprising lack of kindle shops, and I would gladly have swapped all my knickers to have it back!!!
So that's my other lesson - keep the kindle cool - I think we are unlikely to see the same kind of temperatures in North America but I will be careful as I was bereft at having no reading material for quite a while - Dr Fred was reading 'Differential Geometry' not my thing!!!
Also I need to remember although we will hire a car there is some carrying/ pulling of luggage to be had so 23 kilos may be the allowance but 12 is about carryable!!!
That trip, we were away for nine months, the lack of knickers and kindle were the two worst disasters..... well the erupting volcano and the run in with a bush fire was scary but more of an adventure then a disaster and the play tent we had wasn't waterproof at any level which didn't feel good the two nights it chucked it down and I think at the time it felt pretty disastrous but we survived - so hopefully in 9 weeks driving across the Rockies and back through the national parks of the USA we will meet few disasters and more adventures.
On our last big trip - we took our gap year aged 55 and went round the world - I realised that the art of packing light is a good skill to have -basically you pack all the clothes you think you need and then take most of it out to make room for all the camera, techno equipment you need, plus chargers wet wipes, and skin so soft bug spray- the IMPORTANT stuff!!! - however the biggest lesson learnt was that three pairs of knickers (wear one wash one dry one) - is not enough!!!! When you wear a pair of knickers every three days they soon drop to bits, depending on where you are travelling this may present problems fortunately mine lasted until we got to San Francisco where there is an abundance of knicker shops. I wasn't so lucky with my kindle as that melted in the middle of the Australian outback, surprising lack of kindle shops, and I would gladly have swapped all my knickers to have it back!!!
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| 9 weeks luggage and accessories (including tent!) |
So that's my other lesson - keep the kindle cool - I think we are unlikely to see the same kind of temperatures in North America but I will be careful as I was bereft at having no reading material for quite a while - Dr Fred was reading 'Differential Geometry' not my thing!!!
Also I need to remember although we will hire a car there is some carrying/ pulling of luggage to be had so 23 kilos may be the allowance but 12 is about carryable!!!
That trip, we were away for nine months, the lack of knickers and kindle were the two worst disasters..... well the erupting volcano and the run in with a bush fire was scary but more of an adventure then a disaster and the play tent we had wasn't waterproof at any level which didn't feel good the two nights it chucked it down and I think at the time it felt pretty disastrous but we survived - so hopefully in 9 weeks driving across the Rockies and back through the national parks of the USA we will meet few disasters and more adventures.
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