Decision made…

I decided to leave on Wednesday afternoon.

I spent a fair amount of time on Monday and Tuesday planning all my packing. I have over 200 line items in my “car inventory” packing list, which also includes information such as where any given item is “contained” for things in bags, backpacks, and such, and where each item or container is “located” in the car.

I put so much effort into this because I’m going to be living out of my car for the next 6+ weeks, and I’m certain to wonder, at times, whether I remembered to pack some seldomly used but suddenly important item, and I doubt my ability to remember.

So my packing list included checkboxes for “in container” and “in car”, which I only checked off when I had confirmed their status. This took a lot of time, but having to check things off helped me remember at least 5 to 10 things that I nearly forgot, and making the list helped me think of many things I would have forgotten otherwise.

Much of my Car Inventory

As to whether I still forgot anything, I don’t know yet, but I’m sure I’ll let you know when it happens.

I’ll be sleeping tonight in a parking lot in a pretty forest close to a pond. At the moment, there are many other cars. I got here at about 20:00 (8pm) and it’s now about on 21:00 (9pm). The sun will set in about an hour and it’s about 22 C / 72F with a light breeze.

I hear birds chirping and Danes chattering.

The view from the picnic table on which I sit

In other words, quite pleasant.

I’d say there are about 10 other cars and I’m curious about when (or whether) they will begin to leave.