Gear
Gear manufacturers have realised that lots of women like the outdoors and they're different shapes from men. Here's what's out there, and where you can buy it.
How Not To Move
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Move states ensuring possessions fit into a bike box and a backpack and weigh in under the airline limit. Find house. Move in. Settle down.
- Acquire two kayaks, an extra bike, a box of teaching resources and a boyfriend (with house and furnishings). Stay for two years longer than you originally planned.
- Decide you miss home and you want to move back. Appeal to boyfriend (emphatically as possible). Convince boyfriend.
- Quit good, full time job that and turn down offer of permanency.
- Decide that since you’ve both quit you may as well go travelling.
- Decide that since you’ve both quit and you’re going travelling and you have some time off, you may as well take on a kayaking expedition on one of the most treacherous stretches of water in Australia at the same time. That will save having to transport sea kayaks to Tasmania on car.
- Plan to do all this on and around Christmas.
- Win grant to start new website and start work on that, as well as finishing off the study you took on along with your full time job.
- Spend last few months before moving training, organising, packing, working full time and developing website idea.
- Rent house, sell furniture. Move in with boyfriend’s mum.
- Pack car with kayaks, bikes, worm farm, boxes and tools.
- Start driving to Melbourne. Make it 25km. Get towed back to Brisbane. Unpack car.
- Repack car. Drive 1700km in two days. Unpack car into auntie’s shed.
- Catch flight to Hobart for Christmas. Catch flight back to Melbourne on Boxing Day. Repack car.
- Start kayaking trip two days after Christmas. Unpack car. Get stuck on Victorian coast for a week in bad weather. Break a boat and abandon trip.
- Repack car. Catch ferry to Tasmania instead.
- Unpack car. Move boxes under parents’ house and into small childhood room with boyfriend.
- Work full time (and more) developing website. Plan overseas trip.
- Go on overseas trip. Travel across North America and back in just under two months while working full time on website.
- Return to small childhood room with boyfriend.
Time: 5 months
Distance travelled: a long way
Number of boxes: 17
Number of boxes unpacked after 5 months: 0
Possessions needed: too many to list
Jobs: 0 each (as of 15th May)
House: 0 (as of 15th May)
Lessons learnt about moving: too many to count