Robyn and Danny's Bike Blog: Packing

We've been doing a lot of packing lately. Sometimes it's hard to decide what to bring and what to leave behind, but in the end there is a comforting realization that if we forget anything, we will be able to pick it up along the way, or just make do without it.

I think this is all we'll need...

One thing we will not be bringing a lot of is keys. Back when I was a teenager, one of my favorite teachers told me that the more keys you are responsible for, the less freedom you have in life. I'm not sure if this is always true, but there is a probably some circumstantial evidence to back it up. Two weeks ago during my last day of work before leaving my job to go on this trip, I took all of my work keys keys off of my keychain. Remaining were the key to my bike lock, the key to my house, the key to the lock for my cargo bike, and an unidentified key that I had assumed for a while was work related, but turned out not to open anything. I removed that key and put it in the garbage. My good friends Tom and Kelli are keeping watch over the cargo bike while I'm away, so I relinquished that key. Tomorrow I'm not going to live in a house anymore, so I will part with that key. For the next several months, the only key I will carry around will be the key to my bike lock. The grams of weight that we're saving aside, this is a pretty liberating feeling.