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Planning: Preparing for a family trip is an amusing experience – as long as you’re an observer and not a participant. I take a complete hands-off approach to planning vacations as I 1) don’t enjoy planning and 2) would rather stay home anyway. Since Becky does like vacationing, she takes on the complete brunt of planning. This is probably best for both of us, not just because of the aforementioned reasons, but because 1) Becky likes planning, and 2) Becky does like to get away from home. Packing: Our approach to packing is also revelatory in how it exposes the differences between Becky and me. While she makes multiple lists and pulls out the suitcases a week before the trip, I stuff some clothes in a bag the night before we’re leaving, having never made a list. I would even wait until the next morning, but Becky’s eager to pack the stuff in the car. This, by the way, is not an area in which I’m allowed to participate. Becky is very focused on how the suitcases and other gear will be packed in the car. Let me say that despite our different packing styles, a week into the trip we hadn’t come up with anything that we forgot to bring. |
| What Goes in Dave’s Suitcase: Considering my great fondness for staying home and my distaste for travel, my packing needs become all about what entertainment I’ll bring along. Music magazines? Check. A couple music-related books? Check. CDs (Gaslight Anthem, the Hold Steady, Justin Currie, Rob Bazilian)? Check. DVDs (including Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Bob Dylan’s No Direction Home documentary)? Check. A jump drive loaded up with various music-related computer files? Check. I know. There’s a pattern here. If I were a bit more technologically advanced, I’d have my 30,000+ song collection loaded onto an iPod ready for travel and not just on my hard drive at home, but sometimes you have to rough it. |  |
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