Find the one thing you brought along that would be perfect in this situation and is now somewhere in your car. To accomplish said mission you may or may not have to unpack the entire car. In the car there are 8 small 12X18X8 (L/W/H) boxes with lids, 2 36X6X18 boxes with lids, 2 30X8X30 boxes, 2 action packers that are 16X24X16, a pull-out drawer for Erin’s camp clothes, a small YETI cooler, a HUGE Chuckbox, a camp stove and fuel and a BIG tote that holds our mattress cover, air mattress and pillows. Additionally there are the soft sided bags of clothing, our computer bags, a roll-up camp table, two camp chairs, a bag with three gallon jugs of water, a bike pump, a golf umbrella, shoes, sun hats, bike helmets and our sleeping bag. Good luck!
Every time ~ and I mean EVERY time I am at a camp site OR in a place with a roof & a bed I am confronted with this mission. Something that is deep in the bowels of the car would enhance my current experience and I think to myself “Where is that__________?”. This question is followed closely by the next questions; “Is it worth taking the soft goods from around the boxes, move those totes until I find whatever container that _______ is in then putting everything back in a way that means I can find the next _______thing I’ll want?”.
The mission, should you choose it, means you have to sort through in town things, camping things and future travel things. Cooking stoves/fuel, hiking boots/sandals/tennis shoes/good shoes (for both of us), a kite, a couple of journals, guide books, maps, heavy/light jackets, clothing, filtered water bottles in case we run out of water & have to drink out of a stream, a kite in case the wind comes up & you’re in a place that you can fly it, umbrellas, a knife roll with Erin’s knives, a box full of “tools” that includes a 40′ extension cord, in town/pool/camp towels, a camp hatchet, a ball extension for your hitch in case you have to tow something at some point…and and and…….the list goes on……
I am pretty good at Tetris, so eventually everything has found a consistent location in the car, I just wish it were a little easier to get that one thing that would enhance my experience (or that Erin just asked me for), just a little easier to find.
Any advice is good advice, so I’m all ears if you’ve got suggestions.
Leave a Reply