On 5/25/08, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomorrow I start working out how/what to pack on the motorcycle. I just > bought myself a new sleeping bag that will pack much smaller than the > one I've used in past years (and it's also not a sub-arctic temperature > rated bag, either, so I hope I won't cook in it when the temperature > goes above 40 F). Even with hard bags, a tank bag and a load of stuff > strapped on the seat, it's going to be a real trick getting everything I > need on the bike. It'll be interesting to see how it works out...
Bungees are your friends. :-) Actually nylon straps are safer and work better if you need to strap stuff to the pillion seat. The small sleeping bag, and a tent that packs down small, will help. If you treat it like a backpacking trip, and pack similarly, you should be fine. A medium-sized kayaking drybag should fit nicely across the pillion seat, and will hold an awful lot of compressible goods, like your sleeping bag and clothes. I used a small nylon drybag (Chase Harper) to pack the laptop and other moisture-sensitive stuff inside the topcase. The camera/lenses lived in a camera bag also inside the locked topcase. If you have a problem with water leaks in the luggage, line them with kitchen-sized trash bags. Throw an extra folded-up bag in the bottom of each case as a spare. Above all, block out some time to explore the side roads off of and around the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you can, get down to the southwest end of NC, and find Route 28, along with the Cherohala Skyway, and some of the many side roads off of there. Eat a hamburger and fries at the Tellico Beach Drive-In, which is on the Tellico Plains side of the Cherohala Skyway. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
