All packed and ready to go!

As of right now all of my to-go gear is fully stowed and set. My carry-on needs some final tweaking and packing but overall I'm ready to rock. After this blog update I'm going to catch a movie and try to keep unwinding.

Here's a picture of the final gear layout, this is almost everything I'm wearing/taking with me for the trip, it's actually a pretty light load (full size on my flickr):

I made a timelapse of the packing process just for the fun of it, you can really see how light and simple I'm packing in it!

Total weight is only around 34lbs which is incredibly manageable, I'm really excited about this. I almost didn't pack my tent, but I had plenty of room and at 2lbs it's good to have "just in case."

Tomorrow I head into the office for a bit in the morning to say goodbye to everyone then I'm off!

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