Always pack a bathing suit, a bathing suit is pajamas spare clothes. If something goes wrong with your regular clothes, it's a bathing suit. Underwear, usually when you go on a trip, someone invites you swimming always pack a bathing suit. So somebody asked me in the comments on my patreon.

What is your packing philosophy and i could talk for hours about my packing philosophy. A few weeks ago, my friend chloe, who to me, embodies the spirited woman she's, the greatest adventurer that i know she's sailed around the globe like three times on a sailboat. She has a pilot's license. She lived in berlin for almost 20 years.

She's lived in cairo she's lived in beirut. She has, i think she has three passports. I think she has an american passport, a canadian passport and a polish passport. Chloe was the first person to ask me what key transtulit sustenant means.

It's latin and i engraved it in the subframe of my motorcycle, maybe 10 years ago she was the first person to ever. Ask me so chloe was packed for an hour, basically an around-the-world adventure. She was flying from toronto to mexico city, to oaxaca, to mexico city. To los angeles, to tahiti and - and she was with a child, a three-year-old and she had packed remarkably light, and yet she had presents, she had a present for isabelle.

She had a present for me and she had a present for x. I think she might have had a couple presents for x and she is a master adventurer and one of the skills of a master adventurer is the ability to pack, and i think the first tenet of my philosophy is that begin packing. When you know your departure date, even if the departure date is years away, so i've begun packing for a mexico trip that i don't think i'm going to be able to embark on until this december and i've been packing for it for a year and part of The packing for it is replacing the engine of my land cruiser packing is the second step on an adventure after you plan what the adventure will be. I think this is obvious, but if you've packed perfectly, that means you've used every item that you've packed, which doesn't mean you've done the adventure perfectly, because if you packed a first aid kit and you use the whole thing, that means your adventure.

Something went wrong, or maybe that is a perfect adventure, but once as a sort of control, we are checking one bag. I went on a trip from new york city to paris to can to berlin and i think it was a relatively short trip, so maybe five or seven days and i only packed a swiss army knife, i'm pretty sure. That's all i packed besides like what was on my body and, like i didn't even have extra socks or underwear, and i will never do that again. Do not do that, because when you go to foreign places, the whole shopping system is different.

Like the underwear system, the socks system and then you might spend the whole trip either gross and uncomfortable or in a constant state of just shopping and needing things, not sure if i mentioned, but i wish i had packed a phone charger pack, an extension cord with The three three prong holes on it kind of a heavy duty extension cord, especially in foreign countries, where the power thing is weird, because you can usually get a little adapter that plugs into the wall. And then your devices have little computers built into the chargers. That know that, oh that's, you know a 220 volt or 140 volt versus the 110. We have here in america and you just kind of always need an extension cord, always and also rubber bands.

I pack a luxury item that i only wear when i'm on the road. It's sort of my reward, one of my rewards for being on the road and these are and they're a pair of swiss slippers that isabelle's sister and brother-in-law gave me. Oh do not! Pack, more than you can carry all by yourself for a distance of one quarter mile. That's one of my rules because you never know what's gon na happen, you never know if the car is gon na break down when you're in morocco, which happened to me once you don't know, what's gon na happen, adventure packing is among the most sophisticated and complicated Packing so when you read books about great adventures like endurance about shackleton, a lot of the book talks about what they packed, i believe it's in moby, dick melville, writes about how, in the captain's quarters, was a little chest that had the needle and thread in it, Because if those sails they didn't have motors, if those sails tore, you were so they absolutely could not lose the needle and thread to repair the sails.

It was such an important item that the captain himself was in possession of it and i think the equivalent of that in modern times is your passport. The spirited man is brought to you by the spirited man. Patreon team join our patreon team at five dollars a month for exclusive access to archival videos with directors commentary and peer discussions and live streams. Answering your questions and comments.

This packing philosophy episode was an idea from one of our patrons link in the description the heaviest i've ever packed was. I went to mexico for four months on a surf trip so that i could surf for four months and just clear my head. It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I had an f-350 and i packed a 200cc motorcycle, which, coincidentally, was the biggest bore motorcycle.

You could bring across the mexican border before you needed a special kind of paperwork, so it didn't count as bringing another vehicle. I packed a typewriter. I packed books in a little chest. I packed camping gear with cooking gear and the idea with that was that i was planning to stay in hotels, but i had the option to camp.

If i got too remote and that gave me the freedom. The option to camp gave me the freedom to not have to give myself hard destinations every day, and then i had the dirt bike in case the truck broke and i needed to get somewhere and i had packed perfectly. I mean i didn't use every single item, but the f-350 was a big uh, discreet work truck, so i didn't draw any attention to myself traveling through mexico. I think that kept me safe.

This is mostly what i'm packing for the biggest adventure of my life. The most sophisticated packing i've ever done, the most complicated packing i've ever done was for a baja trip down the baja peninsula, and it was a thousand miles each way and that was complicated, because i was also the sort of trip mechanic and there's an entire book. That's basically dedicated to how to pack for motorcycle adventures. The thing about multi-day, motorcycle trips is that it's definitely going to rain.

But if you pack waterproofed, it probably won't, and so we didn't get rain on this spa trip. But we got 11 flat tires fix the flat we just put it back on the bike now and neve punched, a hole in his crank case, but we had packed for those inevitabilities. Tell us about the most important thing a motorcyclist can bring on an adventure. This stuff, what's it called it's called plumber's epoxy.

So i had like a compressor. I had the tire irons spare patches and spare tubes and we were able to just deal. It was a pain in the neck and that heat changing by hand in the desert. Those flat tires - and it was a pain in the neck to to plug the hole in the crank case of neve's motorcycle, but it saved us that day.

I don't know what we would have to double up: go into a town come back, leave the motorcycle there and it just saved us, and that was packing heavy, but packing thoroughly carefully made it unfold in a certain way. That's another thing about packing is the manner by which you pack has an impact on how the trip will unfold and that's a wonderful and fun and artistic thing to keep in mind while you're, while you are in fact packing and so in baja. I was so overloaded on my 650cc motorcycle. I was so overloaded with all this gear, a few hundred pounds of gear and the terrain was so rough.

We were off-road for days and days and days on end that i broke my subframe and when i replaced the subframe, i for some reason said i'm going to engrave something in the subframe and so in the subframe. I engraved key transtulit sustenant, which is the connecticut state motto, and it means the transplanted sustain. I think that traveling and adventure at times might be preparation for transplantation and key transtalit sustenant encouraged me to get the hell out of connecticut, which began my life of adventure. This week on the patreon archival videos with directors commentary on my patreon right there.