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Packing 2.0 - a list for October car camping

travel

Introduction

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

The days before

(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:

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:

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