See below for the meat of the itinerary.
This just in:
May 18th:
Auckland to Sydney via plane at $100
How insane is it that I can fly across the Tasman Ocean between two countries for a hundred dollars?
May 22nd:
Sydney to Melbourne via TRAIN!!!!!
(no, I know nothing about the route I'll be traveling. But I do know that I really enjoyed my Tyler to Chicago Amtrak excursion.) Yay for the 11 hour day on the 22nd!
I'm excited. Tickets for the All Whites game on the 24th in Melbourne go on sale in 3 days.
It seems so long ago (1 year 3 months) that I bought tickets to come to this country. Now I have tickets out.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
heavy man. heavy.
read this first.
ok. so the total for EVERYTHING on that list is over 44 pounds. or 20 kilograms.
but keep in mind that not everything on that list is going hiking with me.
also (sadly for my back and feet) keep in mind that this only covers 4 liters of water. which is enough for one day.
it also includes items with their empty weight.
so let me do the math and do some google spreadsheet magic to determine an actual pack weight. but still. 44 lbs is not a bad starting point....kinda..
ok. i have the pure hiking load down to 26ish pounds. that is 12 kilos.
but sadly, that isn't clothing. clothing total (without boots) is 14 pounds and around 7 kilos. but i'll be wearing some of that anyway. some of it will stay in the hostel. it just depends. the
boots will be pretty heavy. my steel toed ones that i'm not taking weigh 1400 grams, or 3 pounds. obviously, the nice hiking boots/shoes whatever i get won't be that much.
ok. i'm gonna put all this stuff in the bag. keep in mind that i don't have a lot of things, stuff sacks and compression sacks especially, so it won't be a very even load, or a well packed one. but i want to see what i'm dealing with.
here goes.
ok. here's a video.
boom.
ok. so the total for EVERYTHING on that list is over 44 pounds. or 20 kilograms.
but keep in mind that not everything on that list is going hiking with me.
also (sadly for my back and feet) keep in mind that this only covers 4 liters of water. which is enough for one day.
it also includes items with their empty weight.
so let me do the math and do some google spreadsheet magic to determine an actual pack weight. but still. 44 lbs is not a bad starting point....kinda..
ok. i have the pure hiking load down to 26ish pounds. that is 12 kilos.
but sadly, that isn't clothing. clothing total (without boots) is 14 pounds and around 7 kilos. but i'll be wearing some of that anyway. some of it will stay in the hostel. it just depends. the
boots will be pretty heavy. my steel toed ones that i'm not taking weigh 1400 grams, or 3 pounds. obviously, the nice hiking boots/shoes whatever i get won't be that much.
ok. i'm gonna put all this stuff in the bag. keep in mind that i don't have a lot of things, stuff sacks and compression sacks especially, so it won't be a very even load, or a well packed one. but i want to see what i'm dealing with.
here goes.
ok. here's a video.
boom.
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