Friday, April 24, 2009

It's not as easy as it looks


I'm a minimalist.

I rarely wear makeup. I ask my hairstylist to make my hair look as cute as it can with at little effort as possible. I take bags of old clothes to Goodwill once a month. I only own one pair of black high heels (that gasping noise was the girls in my office). I loathe clutter. I refuse to collect anything, except wrinkles now that I am getting older and tupperware that stacks up in the office kitchen.

Yet minimizing shit for this bicycle tour is tough.

I've been packing since 1 p.m. today. Rather, unpacking, since I keep asking myself, "Can you survive without that?"

Today we leave for a three-day adventure to test out our gear. To see what extra items we're bringing that we don't need--aka cooking tongs for one small sauce pan, Adrian--and the things that we forgot to bring--aka, I'll tell you when get back since I don't know yet.

I wish I could zip my bike gear like I zip large computer files.

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