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Revolving a day back around the world - From there I will be one day younger... and if I can't get used to the idea, maybe I'll just have to do it again the other way...

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So for those interested, here is the contents of my packs.

You can have a look and compare with my Original packing list at the time of my leaving home.

I got rid of my 70-90 liters backpack in Vietnam: my brothers took it home full of souvenirs. I replaced it with a 10 dollar 45 lites backpack: just great. It prevented me from carrying too much, and cheap as it was, I wouldn't have any second thought when it came to replacing it. Then in Patagonia I got a big sleeping bag, jacket, and hiking shoes, that took the same volume as my pack... so I got myself an old style 70L backpack.
I still have my packsafe daypack, which is rather large (for a daypack), and that I use to store my tech stuff, books and guidebook.
I also got in Buenos Aires a shoulder bag, to go to classes, and I found it was convenient when visiting places, so I keep it in the big backpack.

I got rid of my GPS, at last, by handing it to my dad.
He gave me his old PDA, I bought a foldable keyboard, and that should allow me to avoid spending so much paying time writing in internet cafe. A public garden or a lounge sound like better places for writing, don't they?

I had got down to 10kg for my main pack, and then a bit heavier with the warmer equipment.

Updated 2nd october 2007
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Storage
- 70L backpack (Mar07, Patagonia)
- Packsafe daypack with inner vault (integrated wire mesh)
- Packsafe "stashsafe" waist bag for passport and money
- Alternately a money belt
- Padlocks (numbers, no keys)
- 2 "cubes" for storing clothes
- Set of ziplock plastic bags
- Plastic box for fragile stuff, or food when hiking
- Thermos and plastic box for cooking essentials

Tech
- Watch (alarm clock)
- USB cable
Camera
- Canon Ixus 60 with 1Gb SD card (Aug06, Thailand)
- 2 battery packs, battery charger
MP3 player, used also for data and pictures backup
- Archos Gmini220 - 20Go - Screen broke in Feb07, so I can't listen to music anymore
PDA, for writing outside internet cafes!
- Palm Tungsten T3 with 512k SD card (Oct06, Beijing)
- Foldable keyboard (Oct06, Beijing)
- USB cable, charger

Wear
- 4 day underwear and socks
- 3 tshirts, 1 short sleeve shirt
- long sleeve shirt for fkg mosquitoes (Jul 07, Bolivia)
- 1 convertible trousers/shorts
- 1 jeans
- 2 long sleeve T-shirts (technical wear) for cold areas
- Swimming suit
- Flip flops
- Hiking shoes and socks (Mar07, Patagonia)
- light shoes
- Wool hat and gloves (Nov06, NZ)
- Scarf (Aug06, Myanmar)

Other
- Silk mummy sheet
- Small pillow
- Towel
- Bag raincover
- Sunglasses
- Rain trousers (Mar07, Patagonia),have to get rid of those
- Fleece blanket (Jul07, Bolivia) for bus rides at 4000m!
- Charango (Aug07, Bolivia)

Health
- First aid kit and Medication
- Insect repellant
- Blood group card, travel insurance details, record of injections

Misc stuff
- Swiss army knife + Opinel
- Flashlight
- Chlorine tablets
- Sewing kit, string rope, elastics, glue, duct tape
- Matches, lighter
- Universal sink plug
- Whistle
- Earplugs
- Deck of cards
- The safety roll of toilet paper
- Pen, pencil, notebook, books
- fishing line

Documents and backups
- Plane tickets
- Passport photocopy with backup cash
- Backup Cirrus/Mastercard debit card
- International driving license
- Sports licences and specific insurances

Essentials
- Passport
- Visa credit card
- Euros and USD

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What I left/dropped/lost so far
- Tent, sold in the middle of nowhere to people who needed it more than me
- Most horseriding and camping material I gave/sold in Mongolia
- Horse, sold in Mongolia, and left in very good hands
- Saddle and Del(Mongolian outfit), dropped at my dad's in Beijing
- Big expensive Karrimore backpack flew back home with my zero-degree sleeping bag and the warm clothes and the hammock (sniff)
- Canon Ixus 40 with a 512Mb SD card, stolen in Laos
- GPS and camera tripod, left to my dad
- Universal plug, totally useless: any new place you get to, just walk into a supèrmarket and get an ultra cheap local adapter.
- Light walking shoes: after 9 months of faithful service, they did not survive the hike in Tierra del Fuego.
- 1 convertible trousers/shorts and replaced it with a pair of jeans in Oz
- Windstopper, in Patagonia, as it was not warm enough and not waterproof anymore
- Longyi (Burmese version of a sarong), sent back home from Argentina
- Mosquito net, after Asia
- At least 4 umbrellas, good in Asia againt rain... and sun!
- My ghostbusters car in Oz, a brilliant 1988, 6 cylinder nissan skyline, complete with camping equipment, that must be by now on the roads of Papua New Guinea (seriously!)
- My 45L backpack (Aug06, Vietnam), given to a traveller in Puerto Vargas, Chile
- Cellphone and MP3 accessories, sent back home from Bolivia
- Warm ski jacket (Mar07, Patagonia), sent back home from Ecuador
- Raincoat, given in Bolivia
- Light sleeping bag (Got it with my car in Darwin), given to a traveller in Patagonia
- Warm (-18 degC) sleeping bag (Mar07, Patagonia), sent home from Bolivia


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21.What's in the packs - Worldwide, France Apr 26, 2006
22.Travellers Links - Worldwide, France Apr 28, 2006
23.Konninginnetag - Amsterdam, HOLLAND, France Apr 29, 2006 ( This entry has 12 photos 12 ) ( Comments 2 )
24.Visa Memo - Lourenties, France May 04, 2006 ( Comments 1 )
25.Preparation - Mongolia - Lourenties, France May 07, 2006
26.Planning for China and Vietnam - Lourenties, France May 08, 2006 ( This entry has 2 photos 2 )
27.Planning pour la Chine et le Vietnam - Lourenties, France May 08, 2006
28.First Goodbye Party - Pau, France May 14, 2006 ( This entry has 44 photos 44 )
29.Le Départ - Lourenties, France May 15, 2006
30.Goodbye Tour continued - Domaine de Faye, France May 16, 2006 ( This entry has 5 photos 5 ) ( Comments 1 )
31.Preparatory RTW - Paris, France May 16, 2006
32.Goodbye Tour - End - Paris, France May 17, 2006
33.First destination - Moscow, Russia May 18, 2006 ( This entry has 14 photos 14 ) ( Comments 2 )
34.Visiting the Kremlin - Moscow, Russian Federation May 20, 2006 ( This entry has 10 photos 10 )
35.Novodevichy Convent - Moscow, Russia May 21, 2006 ( This entry has 18 photos 18 )
36.Transiberien - le depart - Leaving Moscow, Russia May 21, 2006 ( This entry has 4 photos 4 ) ( Comments 1 )
37.Transiberien - premieres impressions - Vyatka, Russia May 22, 2006 ( This entry has 8 photos 8 )
38.Transiberien - La traversee - Perm, Russia May 22, 2006 ( This entry has 4 photos 4 )
39.Transiberien - la croisiere - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk, Russia May 23, 2006 ( This entry has 16 photos 16 )
40.Transiberien - la routine - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk, Russia May 23, 2006 ( This entry has 6 photos 6 )

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