We can't bring everything we'd like to. My trial run at packing provided some banal proof of that. Travel guides, for example, will have to stay behind. I will only bring one spare pare of jeans. You have to pare things down to what is essential.
But some of what is essential to us will stay behind, too. This will be the longest time I've spent apart from my partner, Adele, since we first moved in together 19 years ago. Colin will be leaving Glenda behind, and while they haven't been together as long, I know she will be on his mind for much of the journey.
One thing I'm leaving behind I hope not to return to: the 50 pounds I've managed to shed over the past four months. I'd like to say that I did it for this trip, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. Still, sitting on a motorcycle for 7 or more hours a day is a lot more comfortable without all that extra weight! If only my jacket weren't so loose now.... Well, you can't have everything.
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