It is coming together.

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A bit hot, again, today.  Even with the ac.  I wish I could nap in the cool but unless sleep can happen and I feel the need I can't make it happen.  Some of the clothing has been bagged.  I think I will just have a couple of bags of standard clothing, one small bag for a homeward bound outfit, and another bag for my cold weather gear.  It won't keep it perfectly dust free, save the home bound outfit, but it will keep it freer of dust than otherwise.  Yeah, I need to do some laundry.

I have steaks and hamburgers ready to go.  They should be bricks by now.  Hmm, three by two packs of steaks and four or five by two packs of hamburgers.  Actually I have another four by two hamburger pack I may take.  Those can always just be grilled and broken up into other food, or even cooked and stored, or offered to some hungry looking fool who it too tired to cook.  I don't precook and store steak but I will with hamburgers.  I bought a inexpensive burger press and it worked very well.  I just grilled a couple of the burgers and I've got to tell you, they are much better flame grilled than cooked on the infrared grill.  And they cooked up very fast.  The infrared grill merely cooks them, it doesn't add anything.  Which is fine, sometimes.

I have to finish the last of the dishes, and perhaps do a load of laundry or two yet tonight.  I am also thinking of finally putting the pork roast in.  I won't fuss with it too much, just let it cook low and slow through the night.  I've been fiddling with this that that, none of the big jobs mostly.  And I will have to rearrange some of the clothing I have packed, as it is just going in randomly, at this point.  Just to clear some space and secure some of the clothes I am taking for sure.  A couple of pair of jeans, a pair of zip-off at the leg pants, several shorts.  Probably a shirt and a half per pair of bottoms.  Hmm, and of course the kilt and some odditites.  Several pair of woolen pants and thermal shirts.  Probably too much but...  I'll see when it comes time to pack the packs though.

Medical and artistic stuff is in one small bin, another bigger bin has rope, camping kit, and bowie knife.  I'm trying, as I gather things, to put them into piles with like gear.  Even though I am not always getting to exactly what I planned, I am doing this and that.  It might seem like hemming and hawing but it is required.  It just amazes me how much detail can go into a camp, to try to do it right.

I think the only left to buy for the trip are a couple of pounds of coffee.  I will be taking my hand grinder and French press.  It doesn't produce all that much coffee, but I think I will only be having a couple of pots a day... or two of my glasses, most likely on the rocks.  Vodka tastes horrible in that, which means some secular contrition might be in order.  Oh, oops.  Yeah, I better pick up a few bottles of stupid and perhaps a case or two of brown bottle flu developer.  :p  Ugh...  Well, and dry ice, but that may literally be purchased on my way out of town.  I might be able to by regular ice on any of these next two trips though.  Regular ice last nearly indefinitely in my drop in freezer.  I am, just now, using the last of two bags purchased when my mother was here.

I better make a town run soon, but I want to have the bike stripped of the front tire and attached.  At that point I will also fill her up for the ride, maybe try to make an oil change and tire rotation appointment.  Tuesday is it?  I'll call tomorrow about the appointments and let everything else work it's way from there, hopefully get it set for Friday, if both places are agreeable and have time slots.  Hmm... I will wait on gasoline.  I have an appointment the 19th, I'll fill up then.  Ugh, and plates.  I could wait until I get back but I hate giving the police any reason to possible stop me.  That may wait until the 19th, depending on how well I last with the rest of my doings.

Just in case you ever think of going on a trip into the unknown, keep reading and you will find out what one guy did and eventually how it all worked out.  Yeah.  Later.