by ThehannaTree » Sat 16 Jul, 2022 9:00 pm
Right now I can cope with my u-beaut 50c, 23g bendable, crappy spoon from Vinnies and the homemade bottle carrier and having to ditch my comfy National Geographic stool in the interests of saving myself from 494g of extra weight gain. I've chucked the leaden stainless steel billy and swapped it for 200g less of tomato tin and a beetroot tin bowl. I've had my 30g thyroid removed and lost a couple of kilos training too. Desperate measures! What I absolutely dont need is the extra 1.6 kg of heavy duty, top quality ancient Macpac backpack and the feeling I'm too non-competitive and poverty stricken to afford anything made out of titanium alloy or a backpack that looks something like a fertiliser bag with some straps attached. I realise I've got some of that tyvek stuff slung over some polytube as a hothouse. I leave the zip on my Macpac sleeping bag open and pretend it's one of those fancy quilts. Been doing that for twenty years because I hate having my toes trapped in the end. I've forgone the luxury of a $300 plastic raincoat for a $2, 45g plastic poncho from kmart because I know they keep the rain off, but my expensive 220g gortex one doesnt. It looks great though, red, stylish, keeps the rabbits out and that's about it. Soooo disappointing. I dunno. Dad told me how he hunkered down under a vast solid steel rod framed backpack 50 years ago and climbed to the top of Mt Wilhelm, PNG and back without breaking his back. A friend told me how he managed the Larapinta bowed down under 45kg of christmas cake , a good, thick book and a full tube of toothpaste and he got there eventually. Maybe we are all just becoming delicate, expensive consumer flowers. I'm about 54 kg, a pip squeak woman with muscles made of lead apparently and I'm about to haul my 15kg of ancient, antique absolutes 25km a day on the Bibb. and somehow I'm feeling the pressure to conform to an incredible lightness of being that is ultimately about materialism. Nice to dream though.