Catherine R. Hofmann

for the next week: 1 backpack, 0 laptops

What I packed:

Clothes: straw hat, vans hat, rain jacket, underwear, socks, bikini, board shorts, cut off shorts, edmund jeans, belt, blue polo, button down, blue sweater, 4 v-necks, 3 cutoff t-shirts, running shorts and shirt, nikes (these or these would have been better), and vans

Other: toothbrush and paste, sunscreen, shampoo, face wash, face lotion, 2 flashlights, deodorant, Dr. Brommers soap, hand sanitizer, chapstick, aloe, microfiber towel, sunglasses, 31-blade pocket knife, duct tape, matches, 2 notebooks and pens, cash, ID, credit card, AAA card, some type of e-reader with 100 “classics”, ipod shuffle, headphones, phone charger, ipod charger, e-reader charger (all to USB with USB to power), 3 S-clips, flex lock, Ibuprofen, band-aids and ointment, SIGG water bottle, small bag, smaller backpack — packed into big backpack.

Music (Artist-Album) on ipod shuffle (~300 songs): Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls, Beach House – Teen Dream, Ben Howard – Every Kingdom, Cat Power – Covers Record, Cat Power – Moon Pix, Des Ark – Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker, the Fugees – The Score, How to Dress Well – Love Remains, Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature, Jose Gonzalez – Veneer, Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid M.A.A.D. City, Kurt Vile – God is Saying This to You, Lykke Li – Youth Novel, Minus the Bear – Menos El Oso, Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antartica (Deluxe), The National – Boxer, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part, Phantogram – Eyelid Movies, Sharon Van Etten – Because I Was In Love, Toro y Moi – Causers of This, The Weeknd – House of Balloons, Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers (Deluxe)

The little black backpack will be full of the stuff I can’t take on a plane and checked-in.