Day 4: Packing assessment

After a few days living hauling around the essential must-haves in my life, I'm taking a look at my packing job. As I mentioned a few days ago, I will spend the next 10 weeks with a couple of duffel bags and a couple of backpacks. My packing goals were/are:

• Maintain the rear and side visibility, which is already limited 
• Keep use of the passenger seat
• Everything must be packed tightly and unable to shift left/right/fore/aft.
• As must of the weight as possible must be close the the center of gravity

Here is a visual inventory of everything that I am carrying; yes, I included a helmet.

Life, made simple

It is an astonishingly small pile of things, but is a tight fit in the trunk and backseats of the Evora.

All my work, reading, and writing material

The two duffels, hanging clothes, and helmet then fill the space behind the front seats. I considered using roller board bags because they are easy to carry around, but the rigid shape doesn't lend itself to cramped spaces. The wheels and hard edges would also cause damage to the interior with repeated packing and unpacking. The duffels contain only clothes, so they mold to fit the very small backseats. That meets all of my requirements.