First Pictures

These are pictures of the stuff I'm taking on the trip. Actually, this is just to experiment with putting pictures in my posts. This is an attempt using Picasa and the Blog This! button.

These are my shoes. My hiking boots are out of frame on the right.













This is my expedition jacket provided by the tour company. It has a zip-out fleece lining. It's a nice jacket, but somewhat heavier than the other rain coat I've got.












This is my other rain coat and rain pants.











My shorts and bathing suit. Those are my many cheap sunglasses on the left side of the picture.







Underwear. I don't know if it's funtawear, but I hope it's comfortable. I'm normally an all-cotton kind of guy, but was told that wasn't a good idea for the kind of traveling we'll be doing. We'll see.






Shirts. Seems like a lot to me, but my wife assures me I'll need all of them. We'll have some chances to do laundry, but I guess she wanted to be sure I wouldn't be stinking up the place when we have to be in close quarters.





My pants. This seems like a more reasonable selection than my shirts. Not too much duplication or overlap of function. That's the backpack the tour company sent me on the left. It's OK, but I would have preferred to bring my own. They like us to have stuff alike so they know what belongs to tour people.






This my big ol' duffel bag. It holds a lot of stuff, and has wheels on one end so it rolls. I'm counting on it holding all this mess.