The current contents of my backpack barely resemble those when I left Chicago on August 30, 2011. They don’t even look that similar to what I was carrying back in January when I revisited my original packing list. I have ditched some things, sent some things home and have acquired quite a bit of new …
Now that I have been on the road almost six months, I thought I would take a look back at my original packing list and share how it has held up. What have I tossed and what have I replaced? Here is the packing list I posted back in August as I prepared …
One of the questions friends asked me the most before I left on this trip was about packing – how would I pack for a year’s worth of traveling? The answer? Very carefully. I had several factors working against me when I started the massive task of trying to pack: I decided to bring the …