- Packing
- A week of extremes
- Preparation
- Dress Rehearsal
- H6, #13, and Bo
- Vlotho
- Stockholm
- Tallinn
- Helsinki
- Helsinki II
- St. Petersburg
- St. Petersburg II
- Moscow
- Beijing
- Beijing II
- Beijing III
- Beijing IV
- Xi’an
- Xi’an II
- Shanghai
- Nara – Halfway plus one day
- Kyoto
- Back in the (Former) USSR
- Muroran
- 180th Meridian
- Seward
- Ketchikan
- Vancouver
- St Paul
- Chicago
- New York City
- North Atlantic
- 78 Days and 9 Minutes
- London
Nellie Bly managed to travel around the world with one piece of hand luggage, 16 inches wide and seven inches high. Fogg left only with a carpetbag full of money and the plan to buy clothes on the way. Personally, I would not want to be sharing a compartment with Fogg for those first couple of days, but that is beside the point.
How did they do that?
You would think we should have an easier time of it. Everything is smaller, more compact, lightweight. This is the long way of saying that we are still trying to figure out how it will all fit. NASA called earlier today to inform us that our pile of stuff is visible from space and would we be so kind as to do something about it. Something about messing up their terrestrial mapping… I dunno.
I look and wonder about how we will find room for our clothes. Our non-clothing items alone almost take up a bag. Books, papers, tickets. And gadgets! I swear we are a roll of duct tape short of a McGyver. We probably have enough tools to repair or improve most things we will encounter.
While I advocate that you can never have too many flashlights, I suspect we could illuminate a runway at Chicago O’Hare. We thought that photocopying pages from books instead of taking them might reduce the total volume, but that did not work as well as planned.
