Author: Ed Hovorka

Ready, set go!

Checked the flight and it’s already delayed by an hour. Waiting for the airport shuttle to get here.

You may ask, “Are they nuts?, Doing laundry in the sink?” Maybe, but the clothes we are bringing are all “quick dry”. We have a bottle of CampSuds, which should rinse easy. We’ve test washed things, and aside from my socks, everything dried overnight. And I think if I squeezed my socks better they might have dried faster. Ah, the magic of non-natural fibers. The clothes are nylon and polyester and other things, but they are soft and you’d never guess they weren’t natural.

One of the backpacks and the Nokia Tablet, next to a keyboard for scale.

When I say we are backpacking, that’s exactly what we are doing. One backpack per person. No suitcases and no giant backpacks either. We are using the small backpacks that count as airplane carry-ons. We’ll do laundry on the road, at laundromats or in the hotel sink. So you will see us in the same clothes in all the pictures. It’s 2 or 3 pairs of pants, 3 or 4 shirts, enough socks and underwear for a week, one pair of shoes, one jacket. That’s it. If we forget something or need something we’ll buy it there. It’s not like we are going to the middle of the desert.

If it doesn’t fit in the backpack, or weighs too much, it stays home. No laptop, too heavy. I’m going to be using my Nokia Tablet (which is the size of an iPhone). I wrote a small app for it that will allow me to post these blog messages to hovorka.org. So forgive any typos, as the device has a very small keyboard.