Cycle packing/prep

Wednesday evening was getting everything ready for the cycle. I knew more or less what I was planning to take with me but got great recommendations and advice from Colin & Lizelle as to what to take and not take and that I had over planned to take things and was more than I had needed etc. They had been on bike holidays before so knew the tricks and what to avoid or not do.

This was also the 1st time I had collated cycle trip stuff on one side and then the trick was to see how it would fit in the panniers. I ideally only wanted to use the one of those not two.

Managed to get everything down to fit into the one. The plan was to wash at the longer stays and let things dry the 2nd day there. Once fully packed it came to 6.3kg so not too bad weight wise for everything that I needed for 2 weeks.

I didn't take any pictures of the sorting of stuff, not sure why, was probably just too anxious and worried about it all to think about that. I also had Colin's handle bar box/container thing that was going to hold all my tech/cables/wallet/phone and stuff like that. I used an old Sony Cassette holder for that, which also doubled as my "padkos acquisition device"

I will admit I didn't sleep too well that night with the whole adventure that was looming head of me.

Took a few photos the next morning before I left, will include those here.

Ready to leave