Favorite Luxury Item

“What is your favorite luxury item to take backpacking. Something that you could do without but you take to make your trip more fun, more comfy, etc?”

“beer=comfy”

“Therm-a-rester chair”

“i always think about the one thing i would take, if i were on Survivor! yeah, i need a life.

usually, on backpacking trips, i take a monkey. and beer. and playing cards!

if it were one thing, like on Survivor...either playing cards, lip balm (although maybe i could make some or something), or vitamins. those people probably act so stupid because they're vitamin-deficient! that's my new analysis, anyway.”

“lyra, you get the monkey drunk and win his money?”

“don't give away my secrets!!”

“A pocket-sized shortwave radio.”

“A 3/4 thermarest guidelite pad.”

“A flask of Maker's Mark. A cigar comes in a close second.”

“My Gerber hatchet when I can have a fire.

Or my flask of gin.

Or my parafoil stunt kite.

Or a frisbee.

Or my traveling chess set.

Or a book.

Sometimes I bring all of them :)”

“damn rosey, 1 item


LOL”

“thermarest chair kit, I don';t know how I ever survived with out it...now, I'd never go without it.”

“I like to bring along whatever book I'm reading.”

“Ok back to this Monkey? What do you do with a monkey lyra?”

“Monkey lovin' ;o)”

“lyra and drunk monkeys.
Sounds like fun.”

“i like to bring along a big, beefy man to carry my stuff and me when the hike gets tough.”

“what, they like the outdoors too, ya know!”

“Patriot missle.
...you never know.”

“yes, but those damn monkeys steal your stuff, carry it off into a tree and then sit and laugh at you!
I'm with you on the Radio Geo, and the alcohol, gotto be the hard stuff though, I find it's rarely worth carrying beer.”

“One liter sun shower.”

“MY monkey goes where I go. If you get him drunk, he does tricks.

(8'o”

“and if he's bad?”

“Can't do it. Can't do it.”

“LMAO!

yeah, beer really IS too heavy. and a couple of times we lugged 2 bottles of wine with us, IN the bottles! ouch.”

“Ok Capt. Bobo.... just keep your monkey to yourself.”

“Then that thar monkey needs to be SPANKED!

{WaaAAAAPPPppp}”

“I can tell you this much, sure would not take a skateboard on a sandy beach with me. duhhh!

Probably my chapstick. Hate chapped lips.”

“A pint of Canadian Club!

And if it get's boring: A freeze dried package of Lyra and her monekys (just add beer).”

“YEEESSSSSS!!”

“Monkey around..............”

“Enough of this talk about tarpy.


I always take:

A deck of cards and small cribbage board.

Plenty of Bourbon.

Sometimes some Vodka and Crystal Light Lemonade.

Small AM/FM radio.

Thought about taking my stunt kite but haven't yet. Can't weigh as much as a fishing rod and gear.”

“1. Book

2. Candle lantern”

“Hey Chief, that's 4 luxury items! You're gonna have to drop three of those items or pay the luxury tax!”

“I love Cribbage. Such a great game. Only know a few people who even know how to play...”

“Jack Daniels for sipping
Macanudo for smoking”

“The tax I pay is in the extra weight I carry anyways.

Most all of my friends here still play cribbage, and some even know how to play eucher.

The first backpack trip I did, when I got back into it, I packed that board and cards. When I pulled it out the guy I was with almost crapped his pant. "You carried that?" he said. I said yup. He said "Then we are playing by my rules"

"Dime a point, fifty cents a corner, and a dollar a game. Skunks are double."

After two games he owed me about $25. Needless to say he got mad and wouldn't play anymore!!!!

We still talk about it to this day.”

“Cool, Chief. Sounds like fun. I would definitely have been in on that.”

“You would have to have taken on me after him, being I was the winner.

Good Luck to you.

After hiking, we always like to sit out in a mountain meadow on our pads and play cards and sip on the Bourbon, and have a smoke. Great way to relax.

Now the time we camped in an outfitters camp, that was nice. We had a folding table and chairs to play on.”

“okay, here I go:

chapstick
my camera
red bull energy drink
tequilla or vodka
lemon/ salt LOL
skippo cards (if no one is around cards to play solitaire)
my cigs (at least for now)
deodorant

i don't consider my thermarest a luxury.”

“You bring deoderant while backpacking, Gemini!? Wow, I thought half of the fun of backpacking was it gives you a good excuse to not shower and get stinky! :-)”

“Hey handlebar I'm with ya with the Jack! And what is macanudo? Is it like gonja? I'm not sure about that monkey thing lyra! What's that all about? You get the monkey drunk, play cards, then have sex with it? Ewwww!”

“A book is not a luxury item.”

“did not bring any deodorant yet, as a matter of fact I did not bring anything of my listed items but the cigs, camera and the chapstick. Thought if you can all bring your cool stuff I can too. shoot! ;)

next time I will bring the tequilla, lemon and some red bull tho.”

“My 3rd Gen. NVG's, my kewl ninja shoes, and my salived stained down pillow, SAT. phone for crank calling all my ex's., fake poop to piss off others, a shady cigar bought in a dark alley and a bag of cheap wine, cuz it will double as a midnight urinal.”

“Pants.”

“An American Flag.

It scares the piss outta the Liberals and thieves.

Oops, I meant liberal thieves.”

“.......'nuff said.”

“I think in the future I will also take my saliva stained pillow. Yep, I'm a drooler.”

“I like that.”