Lets get Packing!!!

You know how it is, you need to get on and get your stuff packed for the journey, but procrastinate over what to take. I do have a fear over taking some heavy spanner uphill and down dale all the way to Scotland and never using it!.At the same time forgetting to take my Swiss Army knife, which no doubt I will use even if its only for opening a bottle of wine! The other issue is clothes and how many pairs of under ware to take. I read one helpful guide to "minimalist cycling" that suggested I think, rather optimistically two pairs of pants. Wear one, wash and dry the other pair on the radiator overnight. If  they were still not dry in the morning, the suggestion was to put them over the tea pot in the morning like a cosy to finish off the drying process.At least it would add a new dimension to breakfast conversation with the other guests. Hopefully I will not have to result to that! I have also been reading a book from the 1940's on a cycling tour in the west country . I had the book when I was 13 and gave it away. I got it back again from a book stall in Hay on Wye which I will pass close by on my trip. Alison and I spent our honeymoon there so it will  have special memories for me I travel through.