camping...

well the plan for this weekend was to go camping, and ever endless tries to avoid It I caved in.

Means shopping time :(

Which made me realize yet again that it sucks to not fit the standard.

• sleeping mattress, normal person : 40 - 45$, gigantic tall people like me 85$
• flash light, people with good night vision: 15 - 25$, people who are more or less blind in the dark, 'sir yo should get the extra bright one', 55$
• super small lightweight pillow and sleeping bag 180$ (the one I borrowed did not fit in the car and was to big to be hiked in.)
  

Other stuff I had to buy

• a hat, 25$
• a folding knife, 55$ (after negotiating 16$). I'm not going anywhere without a knife! I watched enough MCGyver to know this...
  
• 2 x water canteens, 20$. After now people who went hiking with me know I freak out, if I have not enough water
• bug spray 15$ and they still will bite me...
• ultra portable pillow, 15$
• compression bag, 25$
  

another quest was to get food, which won't perish during the next 72 hours, while being outside in 40 degrees Celsius+ (104 something in weird American Fahrenheit) and gives me my needed 3000+ kilo calories to sustain me.

Short another 40$.

And I still forgot a lot of stuff, I know me...