holy shit! 58 days until i’m out of here and heading to the UK as the precursor to the pilgrimage. time is ticking away super quickly. i just spent the last 30 minutes working out the details of my financial situation for the trip and now i have to offset that by creating an actual list of the shit that i am going to need to bring with me.
my goal start weight is 165 lbs. meaning i don’t want to carry anymore than 16 lbs. of gear and clothes and so forth. so its going to be a really light packing situation. thank goodness i’m a dude. i’m looking over these recommended lists and some of the shit, while i realize i probably will need them, i have no fucking clue how or why i would use them…
…like vicks vapor rub for feet!
List Number Two (i like how specific this one is)
I assume my goal is somewhere in the mixture of these three lists, but I won’t lie, the “reality” of this trek is starting to set in. Like if i get a blister i’ll need to lance it and then sew it…. ridiculous. but whatever, this is what its about yes? at least i’ll have the luxury of “modern” tools and logic, i cannot imagine what they had to do back in the day before “vicks vapor rub” for feet.
i’ve put myself on a serious spending freeze as of last night and i’m already working on getting my starting weight down. i started at 175 and i’m down to 170 already. no real exercise, just flag football on sundays and the fact that i tend to take stairs instead of elevators and walk a lot. hopefully i’ll hit 165 or even better, 160 in 58 days. we’ll see how it goes.
for now i definitely have to start acquiring the items on this list with my own additions of course, and get shit packed. i still haven’t figured out how i am going to negotiate the london/paris portion of the journey. perhaps pack a “real” travel bag and then the pilgrim’s bag and when i am done in london/paris, mail that home to someone…then keep it moving. anything else i need i am sure i can find along the way somewhere.
less than two months until i’m nothing more than a memory. hopefully a pleasant one.
..ra
