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Cut that out

4/11/2011

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Kellen Smetana
Seven days.

That’s how long it took before I decided to send stuff home.  If you read the earlier posts you may remember I left with almost 70 pounds of gear – way too much.  I’ve already found one of the biggest lessons of bicycle touring is frugality.

Ben has been cycling through Asia for the last two months.  This morning I awoke to him cutting huge sections out of his China map and tearing the labeling off his toiletries.  I poked fun at his excess, but he laughed back, “Hey, it’ll save a couple grams!”  That’s when I knew it was time to purge.  Here’s a list of what I shipped home, threw away, or trimmed in some way:

Long-sleeve cycling shirt (Deloitte shirt’s going home… sorry)
T-shirt
Boxers (x2)
Shampoo (gave away half)
Waterbottles (x2)
Radio
Battery charger (switched with lighter/cheaper Chinese one)
Batteries
Two maps
Anti-chafing cream
Electrical tape
Wrench
Spoke wrench
Baseball hat
Bandana
Folder
Paper

We’ll see how long it takes before I too am cutting up my maps…
4 Comments
Adam Goldberg
4/11/2011 04:11:20 am

Anti-chafing cream????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! How will you survive!?

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Adam Goldberg
4/11/2011 04:11:43 am

Anti-chafing cream????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! How will you survive!?

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Rohan
4/11/2011 06:08:31 am

Great to see you already adapting without major issues. Keep up the posting, the stories are spreading!

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Matt Schmidt
4/12/2011 07:16:32 am

This sounds even better now that you are underway. I'm enjoying the updates and photos.

So here's the deal. Next time I get to ride in the sidecar which I've mentioned many times. But I'm willing to rig up some pedals in the side car, like a child's pedal car, and I promise to pedal on the uphill portions.

The only catch is that I would need to keep my anti-chafing cream for the entire trip. I don't deal well with chafing.

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