It was a busy weekend and I find I’m slightly behind where I’d planned to be in the packing process for my upcoming (Thursday!!!) trip. Still I did get important things done.
Most notably I packed my Bike Friday into it’s TravelCase. I’ve looked at the website, I’ve read the manual, I’ve even watched the video of it being done…
…and it still amazed me that the darn thing fit into the suitcase.
Just like the first time I folded the bike it took a bit longer than it will in the future. I was at it for about an hour – though much of that time was running the video back and forth and not actually packing the bike. In the end the bike got packed and seems to be “safe” in that I can’t hear anything rolling around when I shake the TravelCase a bit.
Tonight I plan on taking the bike out again, though I won’t be assembling it, and photographing the process of packing it. That will be for my use as well as for taping to the inside of the suitcase for TSA’s use should it become necessary.
I’ll bet those guys and gals have lots of practice packing though. I’d love to get packing tips from them, not necessarily on what constitutes legal packing, that seems pretty clear, but on how to make packing easy and simple. I mean some of them must travel, right?
In addition tonight I’ll do the initial pack of my suitcase. This is mostly to see that I haven’t gone overboard and to figure out what I can remove. I’ve got a cheap scale that should let me at least approximate what might constitute being overweight (the bags, not me – I know about me).
Enough for now!
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…