April, 2024
What does one bring for three months of adventuring across the entire European continent (and a bit of the North American continent, thank you Greenland and parts-of-Iceland!)?
Well… one checked bag, one backpack, and a small satchel.
At least, if you’re me.
We’ll start out with a fashion show of what I’ll be wearing on my adventures. Note that the eyemask and bunny ears didn’t end up coming with me.
Once the clothes were picked out, the rest was a process of figuring out what could fit where, and how much I could fit in the first place.
Laptop, kindle, phone, passports, those are all obvious things. Notebook, contacts things, those as well. But what else should I bring? What other activities, and what could go wrong during the adventures, that I should bring contingencies for?
I settled on a good list, reviewed it a few times, and then finally laid everything out and did a trial run. It worked surprisingly well – turns out, I may have been backpacking a lot recently, and I do believe I’ve gotten pretty good at this whole thing.
(Note that my wallet and passports don’t show up on this photo… If you’re curious where those get packed, shoot me a message. It’s a secret to everybody!)
