Packing: What are we doing?

I have no idea. We're only going bring the two packs you see in the pics below, but we've also got a ton of books to bring (Rough Guides: India, Japan, South East Asia and Lonely Planet: China, NZ, and Australia), plus a huge camera, a water filter, so many meds (uuhhh.... thyroid problems, allergies, malaria, other antibiotics, tylenol, adrenaline, etc.), sleep sheets, and a bunch of other crap. Do we even have room for clothes? The answer: NO! At least we won't be carrying around tents and sleeping bags, which take up tons of room, but don't think that this didn't come with some serious arguing!

Justine: I think we should bring sleeping bags.
Mike: Nah. They're too big, heavy, and expensive. Plus, we'll be in India and South East Asia... we're gonna be sleeping naked with only a mosquito net over us.
Justine: You're going to get diseases from the beds.
Mike: So what?
Justine: ...
Mike: Look, if you want to bring a bag, go ahead, but I don't want to.
Justine: ...
Mike: Okay, it's settled then. No sleeping bags, right?
Justine: You're going to get scabies and other skin diseases. You should get a bag.
Mike: I think there's a Sharks game on.

Am I in denial here? Our other friends (also with initials J & M) are bringing bags. But I'm just so lazy. Plus, we have the silk sleep sheets, which should keep most bugs out and keep us from having to use gross, stained comforters.

-MBH

These pics are from when we went camping with James and Meghan at the beginning of April. We went out to Santa Cruz Island (one of the Channel Islands of the coast of Calif.). It was fun, except for the Lyme's disease!