Everything you see here will fit into a 29Liter North Face schoolbag (The Cornice). Going so small allows me to take as a carry on, not gather too much weight, allows for exponentially more poetic travel experiences on planes, trains, and automobiles where space is a premium. Also I won't be so buckled down by some absurd fucking house with sternum straps attached to me running the length from my lower lumbar to the top of my hat. These people exist, and they are cumbersome motherfuckers in developing countries where a) the shoes you have on alone are worth a week of these folks' labor and b) cramming onto buses and trains are commonplace.
I've split this image down the middle vertically between the green dry sack and the leather journal. I will list counterclockwise beginning with the lower right hand item in each of these imaginary "rectangles"
They are as follows:
- Small Compass
- Leather Neck Pouch
- Leather Journal
-Water Pump
- Books (Walden/Civil Disobedience, Journey to the Center of The Earth, Hidden underneath those is a copy of Chomsky's "Profit Over People")
- 3 toothbrushes
- Bathroom Bag
- Deodorant
- 3 ink pens
- Snoopy Wallet for Passport and documents
- Travel Towel
- mp3 Recorder for special music (with mini stereo mics)
- mp3 player that also records FM radio (to collect Indian radio samples in mp3 format!)
- regular Ipod (Preloaded with tunes to last, if doesn't get stolen first.....)
- Hard eyeglass case
- Gorilla Pod (mini flexible camera tripod)
- Camera cleaning swabs/cloth
- Mug (removed at last moment, fuck it.)
- Silk Handkerchief (reddish in color)
- 2 mini stereo mics
- blank space in image is where my camera would be
-Crown Royal Bag will hold: Gorilla Pod, Camera cleaning stuff, stereo mic's, mp3 recorder, camera, and camera battery charger (not yet mentioned)
- Cotton Sleep sack (located in far upper left corner)
- Shirts: 1 kbga shirt, 2 plain white shirts, 1 plain black shirt, 2 long sleeve shirts, 1 short sleeve polo shirts, 1 pair swim shorts.
NOW TO BEGIN THE "OTHER RECTANGLE"
- Small messenger bag to lighten daytime city loads when venturing from hostel
- Bike lock for locking bag during train trips
- Small dry bag currently holding 3 1.75oz bottles of 98% DEET. I have done the research and it has been deemed "logical and sound" to take these three small bottles and thin them with water (as they are simply a DEET/Water solution, the higher the percentage meaning the less the water) so that these 3 carry-on approved sized bottles will be made into a more dissolved solution and should last the time and places for which it will be needed!
- H2o resistant basic first aid kit
- 2 small flashlights
- Camera battery charger
- Daily use wallet
- Pair of canvas shoes
- Blank space is represents my netbook
- Malaria Pills
- Power adapter
- Wind/Rain jacket
and my trusty cargo pants, freshly stitched (thanks Megan!) and ready to kick some ass.
Here is the empy bag it will all fit into:
This makes me feel still, as though I'm taking too much stuff. Too much shit. Too much too much, am I taking too much man? No time for that thought now, I'm slimmed down to a happy enough load, must finish getting things together, for I depart in less then 24 hours. My god........
ps- Here's the final bag, all kryptochronakundalighted to the brim, ready to take me to a place I know as India or as Nepal but truly, this bag, these things; they will take me anywhere, everywhere, and somewhere I've yet to fathom.
Good luck to myself, and God Speed I wish as well.
Let me hope these fates have not yet drawn the string and shear, I have much to learn.....
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