FamPed
Pilgrim
- Time of past OR future Camino
- There are many different Pilgrim Routes and Caminos in life.
Recently I bought a new backpack (Fjällräven Abisko Friluft 45W), I needed to upgrade the size, so I can be sure to have enough space for my medicine.
I didn´t abandon my previous backpack without feeling sad, it had been my best friend for many years, and I really loved it. So even thoug I knew that the old backpack (Ryggan) was to come with me on daytours around my town, I felt sad and guilty..
And I still do, although 3 weeks and some days (who is counting?) have passed.
And adding to the guilt, I feel the lurking excitement calling me from the bigger, but not necessarily better backpack. It is so unlike me and a strange feeling to almost sneak with trying to adapt to new features. I have bought new small sacks in different coulours to sort different things, and I have packed and unpacked, just to get to know my new friend.
Then I realized that maybe if I did some personalizing to the pack, it would make it easyer to think of it as an equal to my loved old friend Ryggan. So I went ahead, and made a casing/sack to carry my poles securely when not in use, and also so I can fold them and take them with me in to the auberges. (I´ve bought poles for the first time this summer, and now I´m addicted.. More about my poles another time I think,)
Then I remeberd @nidarosa wrote a thread in februari about Customising gone too far?, and how I liked you all personalizing your backpacks. Especially the homemade shell by @trecile inspired me, so I made one for my new friend. Then I layed both of my sack besides one another and found that there where no longer a feeling of replacement or rivaly and that all is good!
Happy to make your acquaintance, I said..
Ps! I do need to ask you where to put my homesewned shell on the backpack, where does it look the best? And do you have any suggestions for a new name?
I didn´t abandon my previous backpack without feeling sad, it had been my best friend for many years, and I really loved it. So even thoug I knew that the old backpack (Ryggan) was to come with me on daytours around my town, I felt sad and guilty..
And I still do, although 3 weeks and some days (who is counting?) have passed.
And adding to the guilt, I feel the lurking excitement calling me from the bigger, but not necessarily better backpack. It is so unlike me and a strange feeling to almost sneak with trying to adapt to new features. I have bought new small sacks in different coulours to sort different things, and I have packed and unpacked, just to get to know my new friend.
Then I realized that maybe if I did some personalizing to the pack, it would make it easyer to think of it as an equal to my loved old friend Ryggan. So I went ahead, and made a casing/sack to carry my poles securely when not in use, and also so I can fold them and take them with me in to the auberges. (I´ve bought poles for the first time this summer, and now I´m addicted.. More about my poles another time I think,)
Then I remeberd @nidarosa wrote a thread in februari about Customising gone too far?, and how I liked you all personalizing your backpacks. Especially the homemade shell by @trecile inspired me, so I made one for my new friend. Then I layed both of my sack besides one another and found that there where no longer a feeling of replacement or rivaly and that all is good!
Happy to make your acquaintance, I said..
Ps! I do need to ask you where to put my homesewned shell on the backpack, where does it look the best? And do you have any suggestions for a new name?
, did you just call me an old work horse
?? 
