1 - Dispatch From the Chronicle

When the habitual SFChron gets tossed onto the drive, it is either inside a plastic bag, or if an exceptionally dry morning - just held with a rubber-band.  The plastic goes into the recycling, but the bands pile up and cry to be reused.  This helps to answer the oft-asked Dispatch question:  "How do you go on such long trips with so few bags?"

Backpack of must-haves.

One month + soap = round the world

This trip will be a month in Europe.  We will only need carry-on.  We are ready for ballet, biking, sailing, solstice, and playing the tourist by bus, train, car and plane.   Included are jacket and tie; black dress and pearls - down thru shorts and flip-flops - and even buck-naked.  All held together by the humble rubber-band.

Gypsy wallet with exchange rates.

We have locked up, put the Chronicle on hold and headed out - who knows ... Dispatches may resume.  There is so much left to see - and so few rubber-bands.

So much to see, so few rubber-bands.

- Rubberized Rod

Jean can pull all while I misread the map.