London

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Series: ecotopia

Back at Home

As the first leg of my trip approached I tried to properly back everything I needed with as little redundancy as possible. Since I am flying low cost I will need to pack everything into a mid-sized backpack and carry everything else in my pockets. While the airline limits the size of the backpack, they do not limit the amount of pockets (mostly).

So, I am travelling with cargo pants and a traveller’s vest. I was considering also carrying a fanny pack, but I’m worried that my sister may call the fashion police (or as called in Europe, the fashion Interpol).

Initial Post – The Week of the Flight

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Series: ecotopia

After planning my trip for over a year, today is the week that I will start my flight.

Ecotopia

I volunteer in a bike transportation advocacy organisation called Bikes for Jerusalem. A member of that organisation likes to travel every year to a summer bike tour called Ecotopia. Based on his explanation, it is a group of politically active anarchists who bike for the entire summer in different places of Europe. I’m not sure exactly what anarchist groups believe in (from what I understand, it is basically socialism) nor am I sure exactly how Ecotopia will go, but I will find out. Worst case scenario, I will treat this as a LARP.