Packing 2.0 - a list for October car camping

Introduction #

How to pack for Wisconsin tent camping with Meg in a car in October.

The days before #

• contact cat guardians
• mow the lawn
• clean the kitchen sink and counters
• arrange for mail taken in
• vacuum the house
• get 300USD cash from the ATM
• find magazine: puzzles to do together
• water the outdoor plants
• water the indoor plants
• charge that power pack for phone
• charge that lithium car jumper
• charge that rechargeable headlamp
• check weather
• change the litter box
• make bathroom one immaculate

(laundry?)
(grocer? for cat food?)
(load a travel mix onto the mp3 player? audiobooks?)

foods #

marshmallows
crackers
oats
dry milk
tea
ground coffee
raisins
walnuts
apples
sunflower seeds
yogurt
bread equivalent
potatoes
Asia-Mart snacks
ginger snaps
granola
carrots
peanut butter

clothing #

Listed in order of where everything will be found in our home, east to west, while packing:

• bathing trunks

• socks, 3 pairs of

• underpants, 2

• button up long sleeve shirt

• Jeans or other thing for in town

• pajama bottom

• pants, carhartt (no shorts used)

• scarf

• shirt, black lives matter long sleeve top

• shirt, black long sleeve mesh tshirt

• shirt, corduroy button up

• shirts, tshirts, 3

• shoes, 2 pairs of (one hikish one very light sneaker)

• rain shell

• coat, actual winter coat (was not used. bring for Meg, first aid, stranger, or other unexpected thing)

• ski hat

• shirt, track jacket

• baseball hat or other sun hat

• pants, rain pants

The list above INCLUDES what is worn on the first day of the trip, as you walk out the door.

In other words, don't pack all of it: you're wearing some of these things when you drive the first day.

Non-clothing items #

Listed in order of where everything is found in our home, east to west, while packing:

• goggles

• pillows, 2

• cash (self fee permits, art shows, gun and knife shows, farmer markets, firewood self pay, canoe concession, etc etc)

• exercises, written on a piece of paper

• bar soap

• avon insect towelettes

• towel of some kind for shower or swimming

• electric tootbrush

• magazine: puzzles to do together

• trident gum

• binoculars

• book: fiction, esp short stories

• book: scientific for that locale (Birds, Geology, look up Sky and Telescope sky this week)

• book: tiny things: essays or poems or images

• headlamp

• extra flashlight

• headphones for hard to sleep times

• insect repellent

• coffee mugs, 2

• compass

• cutlery

• dish pan (and just fingers or bar soap is fine)

• hammock

• large pot, small pot, lids, the pot handle

• matches

• mp3 player

• newspaper for firestarting

• percolator

• phone charger cable

• phone hot pack external battery pack (or car lithium batter jumper)

• sunglasses

• sinus headache pills

• sleeping bags, 2

• stove

• stove fuel

• sunscreen

• swiss army knife

• tent mallet

• thermarest sleeping pads, 2

• toilet paper

• camp chair

• camp stool

• can opener

• cooler, Coleman, w/ ice pack

• ax

Index #

This redundant list is an alphabetized list of Every Non-Food Item. THESE ALL APPEAR ON THE LISTS ABOVE.
avon insect towelettes
ax
bar soap
baseball hat
bathing trunks
binoculars
book: fiction, esp short stories
book: scientific for that locale (Birds, Geology, look up Sky and Telescope sky this week)
book: tiny things: essays or poems or images
button up long sleeve shirt
camp chair
camp stool
can opener
cash (self fee permits, firewood self pay, canoe concession, etc etc)
coat, actual winter coat (was not used. bring for Meg, first aid, stranger, or other unexpected thing)
coffee mugs, 2
compass
cooler, Coleman, w/ ice pack
cutlery
dish pan (and just fingers or bar soap is fine)
electric tootbrush
exercises, written on a piece of paper
goggles
hammock
headphones for hard to sleep times
insect repellent
Jeans or other thing for in town
large pot, small pot, lids, the pot handle
magazine: puzzles to do together
matches
mp3 player
newspaper
pajama bottom
pants, carhartt (no shorts used)
pants, rain pants
peanut butter
percolator
phone charger cable
phone hot pack external battery pack (or car lithium batter jumper)
pillows, 2
rain shell
scarf
shirt, black lives matter long sleeve top
shirt, black long sleeve mesh tshirt
shirt, corduroy button up
shirt, track jacket
shirts, tshirts, 3
shoes, 2 pairs of (one hikish one very light sneaker)
sinus headache pills
ski hat
sleeping bags, 2
socks, 3 pairs of
stove
stove fuel
sunglasses
sunscreen
swiss army knife
tent mallet
thermarest sleeping pads, 2
toilet paper
towel of some kind for shower or swimming
trident gum
underpants, 2

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