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AT, travelbunny

Dear Eden,

See you in about 3 weeks =)
-fredlet

Booked my ticket today for PIT and hence the AT the Saturday following the flight.
My dried out husk will emerge (smelly) from the trail a week later (if mom hasn’t wrung my neck from my Katzitude) and after a shower (or ten), I’ll wend my way back to Pittsburgh, see Eden and then fly home.
=)
(Let’s hope US Air/United doesn’t fuckbleep this flight up as badly as they did last time. I have lots of bad things I could say about them, but the timing isn’t so tight this time… though if they screw up this then I can’t promise that my side effect of shorting out all electronics near me won’t go apeshit like what happened to my Treo and mom’s house in Tx., but on a larger scale.)

reviews, Travel: Packing List, travelbunny

Solio Solar Charger

SolioIn the boonies? Need a bit of extra juice on the plane? Use this solar charger/spare battery to charge almost anything with a USB charger or use any of the custom tips that they have available for cell phones etc. This is good for not having to haul around 20 different AC adapters.
Not only does this recharge in the sunlight it can also be a charge though-device for anything it can charge normally. Its built in battery will hold extra charge for when you aren’t in the sun or near an outlet.
I tested this out with a video iPod and I got an extra 3.5 hours of play on the iPod.

travelbunny

Girl Friday

One of the DVD’s in heavy rotation chez fredlet is Girl Friday with Joanna Lumley. I saw this on telly years ago on Oxygen (back in the late to middle ages when I had satellite tv) and finally managed to find it on DVD some years later. Though I haven’t managed to track down the audio book she put out yet.
It has an accompanying book* which is much more in depth than what is on the video.
I really love that the BBC does this.
Its kind of what the Travel Channel used to be (and another that I watched to the exclusion of all else, save HGTV and Boomerang.) before it became the Poker Channel.

*I do this with Michael Palin’s stuff (80 days, Pole to Pole, etc) as well, watch the series over and over, get the books and read their associated travelog.

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AT preparations

So Bunny has been sick lately and I really didn’t want to leave her alone for any longer than I possible had to and this has put the kibosh on me running around.
I have plenty of things to do around the house, so I’m not cranky about it (plus, taking care of Bunny is never an issue, I just wish she wasn’t showing her 16 years.)
I figured now was a good time to start organizing my stuff for the trail.
I know that some of my gadgets will be hotly contested as extra weight, but they will have to just deal with it.

So far my list of things in the pack is:

REI Ultralight pack
1st aid kit
camelbak
water bottle
waterproofs
2 tshirts (coolmax) + 1 on me
1 pr pants(zip offs to shorts)
yoga pants
hiking socks 4 pair
fantastic and magical underwear
smartwool long sleeve shirt
long janes
sleeping bag*
stuff sack for sleeping bag*
sleeping bag liner
GPS + map
charged batteries
camera
flashlight
headlamp
toiletries
trekking poles
hat
gloves
notebook/pen

The food and the tents will all be shared when we get there, but I’ll definitely be bringing some nibblies. I don’t do well under group feedbag situations.
I’ll add and refine to the list later.

*stuff still on the to buy list