Okay -- so logically I just take one car to one plane and arrive (after one layover) at one destination. However, I don't seem to be packing for *that* trip.
Trip 1
Evenings at a restaurant, all scrubbed clean and shaven, is dinner with friends. Jeans and maybe if I am feeling more preppy than my roots I might add a shirt with a collar. Counting the plane rides, I have six of those nights...
Trip 2
Day hiking with the Mrs... Nicer hiking clothing, maybe even the tennis shoes on days I don't feel like the heavy boots. No shower before we start, but still relatively clean.
Trip 3
Backpacking with the boys. No showers and no change of underwear -- in fact, if the boxers don't hike on their own by the end of the trip I don't think that we did it right.
Trip 3, while it may make you re-taste your breakfast just thinking about it, is still the hardest to pack and prepare as if you forget something here, it is at least a 10 mile hike and then a drive to go get it (and then a drive and 10 mile hike back). Forgetting is forgivable, but not fortuitous. Fortunately, I generally remember everything small, usually leaving out only the minor items like a "tent" or "stove".
Trip 2 is the odd man out. If I pack for trip 1 with extras, it is covered -- but as I am bringing along said "Mrs.", I want to look nice. After all, I do need to eventually talk this woman into the process, or at least the concept and idea of the baby-making enterprise. Sticking with the trip 3 fashion wear would automatically delay this 6-7 months.
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I can't believe that you actually included that last paragraph -- and that I'm just now reading it!
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