The packing list we send out for our tour participants is fairly basic. For our supported trips we require participants to bring their own tent and sleeping equipment. Longer, self-contained rides suggest that participants bring personal eating utensils. Everyone is asked to bring cycling clothes, of course, and most choose to bring some off-bike attire, as well as hats and gloves for the unexpected shower. Of course, though, everyone brings something extra along.
Greg Siple, art director at Adventure Cycling Association, has been asking cycling tourists for years about the most unusual object they’re toting. Listed below, you’ll find a smattering of the responses:
-My mother’s ashes
-Christmas oven mitt
-Two cans of paint
-Marimba mallets
-Piece of coal from Kentucky
-A Broken Heart
-Pants
--
ON THE ROAD is posted each Tuesday by Sarah Raz, Adventure Cycling's Tours Specialist and Intrepid Traveler, and shines a spotlight on the daily delights that take place on Adventure Cycling Tours.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment
We appreciate your comments! We encourage lively discussion and dissent. Constructive criticism is welcome. However, if your comment flames the author or topic, or is considered spam, it will be deleted.