Today, at 9:30, after two days of feverish organization, we set off in a car packed with only the barest essentials: 14 changes of clothes, a crate of cooking implements, a tent, two pop-up chairs with cupholders, a quart of homemade salsa, an inflatable mattress with cigarette-lighter operated pump, a side of beef, three pounds of pasta, 16 gigabytes of camera storage, 4 DV tapes, a two burner stove, a backup stove, 4 lamps, 20 books, 40 AA batteries, 3 gallons of water, four bags of Nicole's homemade buttermilk ranch crackers, our passports in case we need to come into the country and don't have tuberculosis, two coats, two pairs of gloves, a 300 volt AC car adapter, two laptop computers, a Samsonite video camera tripod, a lightweight titanium "hiker'" tripod, a Blackberry, cell phones, bug spray, sunscreen, a double size bottle of Tabasco sauce, 15 packets of Taco Bell hot sauce, running shoes, and 144 other items which are too many to catalog.
I think the earliest pioneers of the Old West would have admired our restraint. The image was taken from my front yard in Ridgecrest, CA. With luck, we will not see it again for three weeks.
2 comments:
Shoot, man. I thought you are going to travel through US. :-) You know, there are convinient stores all around... Those areas are wild, but not as much as you may think. Well, "sciastlivogo puti" as we say in Russia. I wish you luck and have fun!
Yes, but can you get Taco Bell hot sauce just anywhere? Can we live without it? We're going far far away, man. Think about it.
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