A road map atlas, a first aid kit, a portable stove, cooking utensils, plastic cutlery, a lantern, two flashlights, three sleeping bags, three pillows, three cameras, three laptops, three laptop cases, three moleskine notebooks, pens, two digital voice recorders and a transcription machine, three cell phones, three iPods, two car stereo adapters, two baseball gloves and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘America’
The things we’re carrying
Posted in The Northeast, tagged America, New York City, road trip, travel on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Snap count
Posted in The Northeast, tagged America, preparations, road trip, Steinbeck, travel on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the snap count: nine days before we shove off, give or take. Our schedule is flexible, perhaps excessively so. But then, we just graduated college after sixteen years of formal schooling–why burden ourselves with more structure?
Still, practical matters must be addressed. After all, how does one prepare for a trip with no charted itinerary, [...]