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About Report 2.
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Shrink your walk around town gear. You can manage without a day pack! 10 oz, 280 g, is enough!
No day pack. Maybe less trouble - less ruined gear.
I was in Jakarta, Indonesia, passing a bus stop. There was a devastated and shaking lady with her cut and empty day pack.
She told her story. I was waiting for the bus. A bus came, it was not the one I was waiting for, but suddenly three criminals pushed and lifted men onto the bus. On the bus they cut the pack from my back, cut it open and emptied it. I went off at this stop and they throw out my day pack.
The basic tip is don't use the public buses in Jakarta. Especially not the crowded ones.
I was in Antananarivo, Madagascar, when a middle aged couple came back to the hotel. “But look they have cut our day pack! How could it happen? We know this is a risky place but our strategy was that I keep my eyes on the day pack on the back of my husband all the time.
Contents
The gear I carry when I walk around town. Mostly compact.
Are you bringing something in hard containers? Water in a bottle?
Items with several functions can save volume and weight. Four functions in a compact .1 oz, 3 g, item that I always carry and everyone can make. Not rocket science.
Some examples of how I made gear smaller.
Packing list
What I carry and wear when I walk around town
Some 19 items
Weight 10 oz, 280 g. Volume is 12 fl oz, 336 ml. The wind breaker not included.
1 Ear plug use: Some night spots have music levels that can damage your hearing. Internet Cafe when somebody talked disturbingly loud on a computer connection. Sleeping in airplanes noisy places....
2 I mostly carry the jacket also in hot weather. Some air conditioned places are too cool, jacket needed.
Possible further reductions
Not much I would like to take out. The compass only.
To slim the gear you carry when you walk around town you need to know:
Pen. Very slim combined ballpoint/pencil, brand and model name. How I avoid loosing it.
Sunglasses, light & compact. Modified standard model. When not used, e.g. at night, my design allows me to carry them non visible flat on my chest under my shirt.
Light. About thumb nail size.
Mosquito oil. Where I found container. How to fill.
Compass, diameter 12 mm, .5 inch. Where I found it.
Reading glasses.
Earplugs. How I carry them when not used.
Some 10 pages (letter size/A 4) with some 11 pictures/illustrations.
Maybe you save this sum already when you don't need to buy a (new) day pack.
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