Backpack Inventory

1.) 2 pairs of pants
2.) 1 pair of shorts
3.) 1 short skirt
4.) 1 long skirt
5.) 2 tank dresses
6.) 2 salvar chamis (top only)
7.) 4 tank tops
8.) 3 t-shirts
9.) 1 thin long sleeve muslin shirt
10.) 1 60¢ pair of rubber slip on shoes
11.) 1 pair leather sandles (additional items attached to said sandles: 2 saftey pins, 1 part fishing wire, half tube rubber cement, minus 3/4" of left rubber sole)
12.) The Essential Rumi Translations by Coleman Barks
13.) Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke (printed from the internet)
14.) One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilbur
15.) Shambala pocket classics Walt Whitman Song of Myself
16.) 1 syringe
17.) 1 Gerber all-in-one pocket knife including fishing line (now half used)
18.) 2 torn and tattered journals held together by rubber bands
19.) 18 rolls of film
20.) 1 Pentax ZX-7 Camera
21.) 1 pair of Gucci knock-off sunglasses from Bangkok weekend market
22.) 2 muslin head scarfs
23.) 1 freezer-size ziplock bag of tampons (collected from 3 countries-hard to find in Indian villages & I was not taking any chances of running out)
24.) 1 Pantene Pro V conditioner (finally found what is considered a good conditioner in a market in Krabi, Thailand)
25.) 1 Pantene Pro V shampoo
26.) 1 Petzel headlamp
27.) 1 pack silver binids (hindu dot between eyes)
28.) 1 CD Player
29.) 2 speakers
30.) 1 set earphones
31.) 1 Y adapter (for friends to plug in)
32.) 30 CD's: Moby- Play, Alana Davis- Blame it on Me, Sade- Love Delux, Best of Billy Joel-homemade CD, Anoushka Shankar, Duncan Sheik, Counting Crows, Forest Rain, Cafe Del Mar- Volume Siete, Sting- mixed, Annie Lennox, Beth Orton- Central Reservation, Sarah McLaughlin- Surfacing, Barry Long-Making Love The Divine Way, Barry Long- How To Stop Thinking, Miles Davis- Kind of Blue, Dave Matthews Tim Reynolds- Live at Luther College, Santana- Supernatural, Van Morrison- Poetic Champions Compose, Mixed CD- including 2 versions of my favorite Girl From Ipanema, Kenny G- Classics in the Key of G (don't ask), Riding with the King- Eric Clapton & BB King, George Michael, No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded, Mark Knopfer-Sailing to Philadelphia, Coldplay- Parachutes, Nirvana- Unplugged in New York, Dido- No Angel, Air- Virgin Suicides, Passion-Sources.
33.) 1 Time magazine- Asia edition
34.) Sierra Designs thin raincoat
35.) 1 bottle rubbing alcohol- used mainly for removing the permanent coat of dirt from my face
36.) 1 mala- blessed by the Dali Lama
37.) 2 ankle braclets
38.) 4 hippi grunge woven necklaces
39.) 1 turquoise ring
40.) 1 tea tree deodrant from Australia
42.) 1 tranquility aromatherapy mixed essential oil
43.) 1 bottle of goldenseal & echinacea
44.) 1 bag of various medicines
45.) 1 bottle of vitamin E oil- to apply to scar on back from ferocious waves in Australia
46.) 10¢ toothbrush bought on the street
47.) 1 tube of fake Colegate toothpaste- yuk.
48.) 1 bag Q-Tips
49.) 8 hair ties
50.) 1 brush
51.) 1 bottle of Deet mosquito repellant
52.) 1/2 mirror piece
53.) 1 eyelash curler
54.)1 pair tweezers
55.) From Here to Nirvana guidebook
56.) Lonely Planet guide to India
57.) 1 bottle of Australian red wine
58.) 1 tube half dried mascara
59.) 1 glue stick
60.) 1 Scholl foot scrubber- this took days in Calcutta to find. FYI: they call it a foot comb.
61.) 1 english thesaurus
62.) and the final essential, Clorox Bleach.

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