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Packing for six months on the road – it isn’t easy

As our departure date approaches, all the big decisions have been made. By big, I mean we have a departure date, selected the national forests will be visiting and campgrounds to survey, our route is mapped, and all that stuff. I have my lists of what we need to take like laptops, medicines, files, etc. Now, it’s time to focus on the little things such as what clothes do we take.

Remember, we are leaving when the temperatures are likely to be hovering around 100 degrees and tornadoes are still skipping across the middle of the country.  Our return will be somewhere around late October, hopefully before the snow starts to fall but we will probably be dealing with frosty mornings and may be some nights with freezing temperatures.

A first consideration is weather.

We’ll have to deal with the heat and humidity of the first part of our travels. I still remember six weeks of rain and overcast skies that had mildew growing in closets and my taking *all* our clothes to a Laundromat the last time we were back east. It wasn’t to wash them but to dry them out! And than there is a real possibility of cool weather the latter part of our travels.

Next there are business and social commitments

Next is business and social commitments where neither shorts nor blue jeans are appropriate. I can’t take a different outfit for each occasion so must maximum the look of a basic outfit. I have a delicious black, wool-blend pantsuit and a light brown linen skirt and jacket but which one? 

Got my lists

One of the most important things that must be done for departures is double check my lists.  Not only the list for what we need to take but also the list for the things we must do before departure such as stop the mail, set the house alarm, unplug electric outlet.

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