All the online maps claim that it will take us 8 hours to drive to Maine. For the record, I don’t believe this (although I desperately want to). It takes us 8-10 hours to drive to Boston, and our destination in Maine is reportedly two hours north of there – if we don’t stop for gas or food, which we will.
For the drive, and for subsequent hours of our week-long vacation, I have packed:
- four fiber-related magazines
- one volume of Vogue’s stitchionary
- one cowl project
- one shawl project
- one sweater project
- an extra ball of special leftover yarn for another possible cowl
- two spinning projects
- 7 spindles and a kniddy knoddy
- two books – Ahab’s Wife, and a biography of Frederick Law Olmstead
- my mandolin
This means I have one tiny suitcase and a bag of toiletries for me. Plus three shopping bags, one backpack, and one basket full of fiber projects. It always takes me an inordinate amount of time to pack for any trip. It took me longer to locate all the size needles I need for my vacation knitting projects (2.5 hours) than it did to narrow down vacation clothing options (rain coat? check.) It’s a good thing we’re taking my car, and this is what I love about taking my car – I can fill it with whatever I want, and I can take a lot with me. I know it’s overkill, and I don’t care; I would rather have brought too much than be sitting on a beautiful pebble beach, or lunching on the trail at the top of a mountain, wishing for the one thing I left at home. Bug spray and sunscreen? Check!
I am not taking the kayak, and we’re just going to see how that goes!
