Eh? Eh? I like how I look in this thing, I, this is, I feel like I'm back where I belong.
Some of you may have seen my last packing list video that I made.
I decided it was time to make a new one.
I'm going on my third Camino in two days.
This is the first time that I have gathered all of my things together in one place, laid it out.
Here's a picture. It looks like a lot of stuff. It's all in here. All of it.
I've made a couple changes this year to what I'm bringing, and kind of how I'm approaching things.
I have a lot of new things, as you can tell, I have a new backpack,
I have new shoes, I have new everything,
and this time I actually have everything in front of me to show you as well.
So, I'm going to empty this guy out, and I'm going to show you everything that
I'm bringing on my Camino that I leave for in two days.
This time I'm doing the Camino Portuguese, which I have not done before,
so there is an aspect of, I don't know exactly what the weather
is gonna be like and, but that's the case for any Camino, any time.
You can't really anticipate exactly how it's gonna go.
This is my best effort to try and make things go as smoothly and lightly,
and as pain-free and tendonitis free as I possibly can. So, let's get started.
Let's start with the big stuff. So, this is my backpack. It is about half the weight of my last backpack.
This is an Osprey, obviously, and it is a Sirrus 36. It fits me perfectly,
the hip belt hits right in the middle of my hip, which is where it's supposed to.
There's no gap in between my shoulder and the bag when it's sitting there.
When it's too tall, it could be like that and that's kind of how my old one was.
It comes with a rain cover as well, which is lovely.
This is my new baby, and I can't wait to break it in.
The second most important purchase that you're going to make
is probably your shoes, and these are the ones that I have chosen.
These are a shoe made by Columbia, they're called the Conspiracy Titanium Outdry.
So they look like running shoes, and they're very very light,
which I'm happy about, but they are waterproof.
They have an aggressive enough tread to handle the Camino,
so there's not going to be like any slippage happening, but I need a low-cut shoe.
When I wore a high cut one last time I, if you've seen my videos, I've left them in a tree,
'cause they really, I'm not used to walking with that higher cut,
and so these are going to be perfect for me hopefully, we will see.
I'll keep you updated. For those, I also got a pair of insoles that
have some like added arch support, to help kind of relieve
the pressure on my Achilles tendon when I walk, because I got tendonitis last time.
So hopefully those will help, and they'll make things a little bit like cushier as well.
I got myself another pair of Keen Whisper
walking sandals which, on my last Camino, I pretty much ended up walking the entire Camino in these,
so I'm gonna actually probably start with these as my default shoe, and if it's raining,
then I'll put my other ones on, because I've just had so much bad luck with footwear
that I'm just going to stick with these to start and see how it goes.
This is the same sleeping bag that I have brought for three different Caminos.
The compression bag isn't really working too well anymore.
There's the details, so good to seven degrees Celsius or 45 degrees Fahrenheit so it's quite a light one.
It's bigger than it needs to be, like I could very easily squish this up more.
But if you saw, I do have like, straps, to attach this to the bottom of my backpack, which I was doing there,
we'll see if I need to do that when I'm walking, but it would fit in my bag as well.
Yes, I am bringing a sleeping bag and that is the one I'm bringing. I'm bringing a hiking pole.
I used the other pole from this set last time I went, so I'm just going to use the second one.
Top tip, look for this kind of stuff at like Army and Navy or like, co-op stores,
'cause these were like five bucks. So those are like the big gear things outta the way,
like the big purchases, the things that cost a lot of money,
and that will make a huge difference to your Camino.
I'm not bringing a poncho this time. The one I have is quite heavy, I can't afford to buy a new one.
If I get there and it's pouring rain, I'll like find a plastic one to wear or something. I'll be fine.
I'm now going to show you my clothing. Some of it is the same as in my last video,
some of it is new. I'll just kind of go through it quite quickly.
Okay these are the tops I had. The shirts are literally the exact same as last time.
So I have this red merino wool t-shirt that I got at Costco.
The brand is Segments and it worked just fine for me last time, it's held up really nicely.
And then also bringing my long sleeve t-shirt that I talked about in my last one as well.
This one's from Mountain Equipment Co-op and it's also merino wool. Merino's great, as most of you probably know.
It's really good for keeping you warm and wicking away moisture, but without retaining odour,
and it dries really quickly, and it just keeps you warm but it's really really light physically.
I got myself a new fleece. I would never go to the Camino without a fleece jacket to be honest,
like, fleece is so nice and light to carry but it keeps you so cozy. It can be expensive if you go to like
outdoor stores, but if you find something at Costco or something that's on sale,
they're really reasonable. On to an outer layer, I got myself a new rain jacket.
Honestly this is just the one that they had on sale at Costco.
I really can't afford like the three hundred dollar ones. So this is from the Marmot, it says waterproof/breathable fabric,
which I never really understood, that seems like counter-intuitive. It's got the hood that you can roll up into it,
if you want to kind of tuck the hood away. This one also has like the ventilation under the arms.
So those are the tops that I'm bringing. One short sleeve, one long sleeve, one fleece and one jacket.
These are the pants that I'm bringing. These are from North Face.
They came with me on my first Camino. They're not zip offs, but they do like, roll up
into capri length, lots of like handy dandy pockets, and it has a handy dandy belt as well,
for hopefully when you lose weight on the Camino which is always nice.
Super quick dry, no complaints with those those, those have served me really well.
And then I just got a pair of hiking shorts as well from Costco for like $20.
And these are Cloudveil brand, which I have never heard of,
but they are suiting me just fine, and they are really really light and quick dry as well.
And then for a little bit of a luxury item, I brought leggings last time as just like
something to chill in, like pajamas and something to wear that's not quick dry,
and just something to hang out in. I'm bringing these this time, similar idea.
Something to chill in, something that's really soft and cozy.
I'm bringing a scarf with me. This time I felt like I wanted to bring this instead of a buff.
Doesn't take up too much space or weight or anything like that. When I travel I just love
to have a scarf, like something to ball up to sleep on, something to use
to keep the wind off you or something like just, I just want to bring it,
and so I am bringing it, and that's kind of the end of that story.
This is the fun stuff, I'm bringing some underwear and some sports bras as well.
For the ladies, I usually just bring quite low impact like comfy sports bras,
not the really super tight ones. I am bringing three pairs of socks.
Some people would only bring two but because I'm thinking
I might end up wearing my sandals quite a bit, I want to have just an extra pair
in case it's raining or something and I have to change throughout the day.
So I have one pair of just like kind of standard merino wool ones.
I have one pair that's got the built-in liner, supposed to help reduce friction. And then same with this one,
this one says like "sock and liner in one", which I don't know if that's kind of hokey, I don't know.
These feel comfy and I'm going to enjoy them. That's all I have for clothing, gonna kind of
go now into like random accessories, and things that I need to bring that isn't clothing and gear.
I'm bringing my handy-dandy Lug bag, which I have brought on both of my other Caminos.
This is my carry-on bag. I really like it because there's so many like, there's just a crap ton of pockets,
there's pockets in pockets, and pockets. Lots of secret hidey places. I mean, I don't particularly
like how it looks or anything, but it's really light, it does ball up quite small,
doesn't take up too much room, and I just really like having it, it's just super handy for travel.
This is my journal that I'm bringing with me this time. I treated myself a little bit.
This was hella expensive but it's so beautiful and what I love about this, so you unwrap it,
it keeps it nice and safe. So it's just kind of your standard journal on the inside,
but you can actually take it out of this pouch, and so once you fill up this journal,
you can take it out and then you put find a new journal and stick it in there,
and you can just keep using this forever and ever. And it just feels so special,
and I have a lot of feelings right now that I need to get out onto paper while I'm traveling,
and so this is super necessary. And I hope to be writing in it a lot while I'm away because just,
oh, it's so beautiful, how could I not? How could I not, I mean, look at this thing.
I also have a money belt, this came on my Camino last time as well,
this is from the brand Cactus Creek which is, I think, clearly Canadian, can we all agree?
Yeah. They like to put maple leaves on things, I don't know, we like like to claim it as our own.
But this I wear underneath my clothes, and this is where I keep all of the things
that I really don't want to lose. So that's where my passport would be, that's where like credit cards
and debit cards and--ooh! And driver's licenses and things like that,
like things that I need to have on me, but I definitely don't want to be easily accessible.
In my money belt, I keep like the majority of my cash as well.
Because it costs so much to take money out on the Camino, or when you're traveling,
you know, you get like a bit at a time, you get a couple hundred euros,
and I keep most of that in here, in like a plastic bag, because I sweat when I'm walking obviously,
and I don't want to get everything wet. And then I just have this little coin purse,
which acts as like my daily wallet and I'll just keep that in my pocket.
So for daily expenses I can just pull things out of there, without going into my money belt.
In terms of electronics that I'm bringing, I'm bringing both my phone and my tablet.
I mean, come on, I'm a millennial, can you expect me to go without electronic for a month? No!
Totally joking guys, I'm totally joking.
I'm bringing my camera, my camera case, extra battery, extra memory cards, charger, that sort of thing.
Also for my camera I'm bringing a gorilla pod, which is just a tiny little tripod that can like,
it bends, and you can stick it on anything, there he is. So we'll see how much I use this,
we'll see how much I actually like film or take photos while I'm there but, now I'm set if I do.
I'm bringing a cord to charge my thingies, a thingy to plug into the wall,
and then if you're from not Europe, you will need to get a plug adapter.
They're like $4 on Amazon, don't get one of the expensive
$30 converter things, you just need a plug adapter, that's all you need. You're good.
Okay, hang in there guys, we're getting there. Okay, here we go. My first aid kit, this looks literally
exactly the same as the last time that I opened it 'cause I haven't used it since then.
Moleskin, bandaids, sewing kit, pills! Anti-inflammatories.
This time I'm bringing Glide, this basically works the same as Vaseline,
like you just slick it all over your feet and it reduces the friction
of your feet in your socks and your shoes, and reducing friction means hopefully, ideally,
reducing blisters, so let's see if this works for me. Updates to come on that.
I also have two little baby tubes of Voltaren. Voltaren is a topical anti-inflammatory cream.
It's very very popular on the Camino, you'll definitely see this,
and I very much need it and I found it very useful when I had tendonitis.
And the smell makes me think of the Camino, which is really weird.
Everyone who travels anywhere has seen these, these are from the brand Light My Fire.
Come on baby, light my fire. But yeah,
spoon on one end, fork on another, knife serrated edge right there.
Now we're getting into like the random bits. I have headphones.
I always bring some plastic bags of some sort, I always bring one large Ziploc bag at least,
that is dedicated to icing my injuries, because God knows I'm going to get injured,
God knows I'm going to have something to ice, and the bars are usually pretty good about,
if you go and get a drink if you're like, please sir, may I have some ice?
Other little bits and bobs, I have my roll of toilet paper all ready to go
I always bring some clothes pins, just in case the albergue runs out
so I don't have to steal from other people. I also have my key light, which I have talked about before.
I don't have a headlamp this time, that's different. I've brought a headlamp the other times.
I am not picturing myself being one to get up super duper early this time, so I don't feel like I need a headlamp.
And also, my headlamp is broken and I can't afford a new one, so I'm just gonna get by on just this,
and hope for the best. I am bringing a watch. Earplugs, always got to have earplugs.
I also have a combination lock. This is more for before I start the Camino, because I'm going to be in Lisbon,
staying in like a regular hostel before I go to the Camino, and while I'm exploring the city
and don't have my backpack with me, I would love to be able to just leave my passport
and valuables and stuff behind so, I'm bringing this guy so that I can do that.
And then I have all my toiletries, which are pretty self-explanatory.
I have sunscreen, I have deodorant, I have face cream, toothpaste, contact lens solution, a razor.
I have my Lush shampoo and my Lush conditioner.
Because I'm blind as a goddamn bat, I have my prescription sunglasses that I'm bringing with me.
I have my regular glasses, these are obviously like bulky and heavier than I would like them to be,
but I don't want to break my glasses on the Camino
so I have that extra added bonus weight to carry around.
And then last but not least, I have my very sophisticated water system,
which you may have seen in my last video. I just have this like pouch that I literally, it's just like velcro,
and I just stick in on the hip belt of my backpack, and I have a water bottle,
and I put the water bottle in the pouch, and then my water is right there, easy to drink,
I don't have to deal with like the weird sacks and everything. That seems like too much work to me.
This is super easy, it doesn't get in the way. It's right there so I can drink it whenever I get thirsty.
I like a water bottle that you can open with one hand,
and you don't need to like actually physically unscrew the cap.
You can just put it back, get on your way.
And that my friends, is everything that I'm bringing with me.
That can't be it. Oh, the only things that I don't have with me that I'm going to be bringing,
you know, that I hope to be bringing, is like a microfiber towel,
and my Swiss Army knife, which I can't find and it's driving me nuts because I need that thing.
I might end up buying another one, I really can't afford it because God, this stuff is expensive.
Backpacks are expensive, shoes are expensive, flights are expensive, like I was not-
I haven't been like saving and preparing for this for months and months.
It was kind of just, I have my travel fund, and just with life situations,
I was like I need to do this, right now, I need to get out of here and go back to the Camino,
and so that's what I'm doing, and this is kind of what I've scraped together,
salvaged from the stuff that I had from before, and replaced things that I felt like I needed to replace,
like my backpack. I hope this was useful. I hope this turns out to be useful for me.
I will report back whether or not this packing list was actually successful.
All right. Buen Camino folks. Buen Camino to me, awesome.
I get to say Buen Camino to you guys all the time, but like,
it's my turn now, let's do this, let's do this thing.
Alright. Bye guys. Talk to you very soon.