Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Amp up The Stuff

Our trip prep right now revolves around pre-packing stuff.  We are genetically related to The Joad Family.  You remember them from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."  Well, they are our Role Models for packing for a trip.  They set a really high bar and pretty much wrote the book of standards and procedures for carrying stuff out on the highway looking for adventure.  We think fond thoughts of them everytime we get ready to put the pedal to the metal. 

If Tom Joad was alive today, he'd be a New Age motivational speaker giving high dollar seminars called "Trip Planning, Zen & Now," or "The Fine Art & Science of Stuffing Stuff."  Heck, I'd pay my $295 to attend!  I'm sure such seminars would be a real hit in Sedona.  I can imagine the headlines now, "Now Reincarnated, Tom Joad and his award-winning lecture series, "Hit The Road to a Higher You."  As long as he didn't have me sit in a sweat lodge for hours after a long fast, count me in.

What all of this packing means is that we are prowling our boxes and shelves of stuff trying to find more stuff that we can carry more hundreds of miles so that it can sit on a shelf someplace else just like it has here for the past couple of years.  You know, a person just can't have too much stuff and the more stuff that sits around and never gets used, the better.  Yeah, I know a lot of people say "If you haven't used it in a year, get rid of it."  But what fun is that.  It doesn't do a single thing to create a Magic Mountain of stuff and heck it could lead to a naked-looking basement, too.  Bare shelves?  NEVER!  Empty storage boxes?  NEVER!  The more stuff we can have sitting around idly doing nothing to contribute to our quality of lives, THE BETTER.  Long live useless stuff, right Tom?

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