culling

a partial list of what´s been ditched so far.

*purple bandanna

*one month worth of skin meds. weren´t working anyway.

*little notebook for jotting stuff down.

*a pile of wet wipes. nothing will ever be clean anyway.
*extra moleskin (i know, i know it´s light. but every little bit counts and my feet are fine.)

*a pair of underwear (that was unintentional. i lost it. keep comments to yourselves.)

*squeezed out some arnica and antibiotic ointment

*gave away athletic tape to a needy dane. i´ll probably regret giving it up, but she had had so much bad luck and was still so positive that i needed to trade her some tape in exchange for some of her optimism. i know i´ll need it later on at some point, probably more than the tape.

*gave away a little flashlight. the head lamp was enough.

*visine. honestly, bridget. visine?

*a bunch of ziploc bags.

*some ativan, extra tylenol

*gauze roll

*gave away some earplugs

*my proudest accomplishment in this department is ditching my guidebooks. two of them. they were heavy. there are a whole lot of yellow arrows. i have two pieces of paper that tell me where the towns are and where the albergues are. and there are plenty of efficient germans with heavy books should i have any questions.

candidates for throwing out:

*sink plug. like i´m going to do laundry in a place that requires a sink plug. be real.

*one pair of convertible pants. i can just wear one pair. i don´t need two. besides, it´s been raining so much, it´s practically like washing them.

*bug spray? this was for bed bugs, but even deet won´t stop those, i´m pretty sure.

*long sleeved shirt. i don´t think í´ll be anywhere that i really need it.

*i have some matches that are burning a hole in my pocket.