{"id":1378,"date":"2008-03-27T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2008-03-27T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T03:00:11","slug":"the-contents-of-my-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-contents-of-my-suitcase\/","title":{"rendered":"The contents of my suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a post for posterity&#8217;s sake, blogged from Vancouver. \u00a0 I haven&#8217;t quite made it home yet.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the busiest two months in the history of my consultancy practice, travel wise. \u00a0 For the last month, I have been living out of a suitcase, with my schedule consisting of a week on the road and one or two days at home for four weeks in a row. \u00a0 My home has been an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglecreek.com\/bags_luggage\/wheeled_luggage\/Switchback-Max-25-20199\/\">Eagle Creek Switchback Max 25<\/a> (which is an incredibly excellent bag, if I do say so myself), and it&#8217;s full of everything I need for my travelling facilitation and harvesting roadshow, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two pairs of &#8220;good&#8221; pants and a pair of jeans.<\/li>\n<li>Two &#8220;good&#8221; shirts and two t-shirts.<\/li>\n<li>Swim trunks\/shorts, taekwondo pants and taekwondo shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Five pairs of socks<\/li>\n<li>Four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.higginsbrothers.com\/beanbags.htm\">75g Higgins Brothers juggling balls<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A modified Generation tin whistle in D<\/li>\n<li>A box of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grove.com\/grovehome\/Charters-Markers\">Charters markers<\/a> and some assorted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickblick.com\/zz212\/15\/\">Mr. Sketch<\/a> pens<\/li>\n<li>3 sets of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staedtler-usa.com\/pens_refills_us.Staedtler?ActiveID=24161\">Staetdler pens<\/a>: 8 triplus fineliners, 20 triplus fineliners and 20 triplus colour<\/li>\n<li>Two Moleskines &#8211; a new one and an old one<\/li>\n<li>A copy of Stephen Karcher&#8217;s I Ching and my current read, Markus Zusak&#8217;s <em>The Book Thief <\/em>(which I bought&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/tkd\/2008\/02\/deck-of-cards-from-hell.html\">A deck of playing cards<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My laptop, cellphone, Canon Powershot A720, Olympus DS-2 voice recorder, Sansa 2GB mp3 player and an assortment of cables, connectors and a webcam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopledge.com\/detoxnalgene.asp?id2=27717\">A plastic Nalgene water bottle<\/a> (soon to be replaced by metal)<\/li>\n<li>A steel travel mug from Bad Ass Coffee in Maui.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscorrigan\/2368055370\/\">tiny single steel travel espresso cup<\/a> that always elicits &#8220;ahhhhhh&#8230;cuuuuute&#8221; comments from Asian baristas at airport espresso bars (it&#8217;s a phenomenon&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Glasses, toiletries, tea bags, wallet, passport, a file folder with border documentation and some ball point pens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The whole thing is pretty manageable, and contains everything I need to work, exercise, play and amuse myself on long flights. \u00a0 It all goes on my back when I am walking between the ferry and my home, which is a mile through forest and along rural roads, and it all rolls nicely along airport and hotel floors. \u00a0 I have literally been living out of this bag for a month, at home and on the road, (with the exception of <a href=\"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1358\">the three days the bag was in Korea<\/a>) only changing around the clothes when I get home, switching dirty for clean. \u00a0 All told, a tidy little set up, and a nice reminder of how little I actually need to work and live with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a post for posterity&#8217;s sake, blogged from Vancouver. \u00a0 I haven&#8217;t quite made it home yet. 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