1 for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready...

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Just 3 days left before we start our hike!

Our gear is laid out on the sofa and love seat at my parent's place.  We have an inventory list to check off everything as we pack it up to make sure we have, well, everything.  But we just can't seem to do it because every time we get ready to start we think of some other little process or project to do first.  It's not stalling, in fact it's getting things finished so that we can check them off.  

We just finalized how the collection bag for filtering water will hang (it's a gravity filter system), but first we had to find the bag!  Turned out it was in the bottom of one of the backpacks.  We are sealing the seams on the tarp I made (months ago, I know, I know, I could have done it then).  We ordered a digital scale for weighing packages to ship to ourselves.  We initially thought we would use the standard flat rate boxes to make it easy on my parents but by not using the flat rate boxes we save 5 times what the scale costs so it is worth the investment.  

Now I'm just sitting down to design an identification label for putting on the boxes that will be shipped to us.  That way when we go to the post office and say that we're thru hikers, we can also say... oh yeah it's the box with this label on it that has hikers and beans.  

Okay, back to work for a bit!