{"id":907,"date":"2018-04-14T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2018-04-14T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:24:19","slug":"how-much-is-enough-better-choices-for-my-packing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-much-is-enough-better-choices-for-my-packing-list\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much is Enough: Better Choices for My Packing List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EAC9F884-68CD-4F5C-BD72-E29F6A6EB951-e1523743818301.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EAC9F884-68CD-4F5C-BD72-E29F6A6EB951-e1523743818301.jpeg\" alt=\"You don\u2019t always need the economy size\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EAC9F884-68CD-4F5C-BD72-E29F6A6EB951-e1523743818301.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EAC9F884-68CD-4F5C-BD72-E29F6A6EB951-e1523743818301-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comparing sizes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the Northern Tier I carried the big one on the left. At 10 ounces including the container, with far more sunscreen than I needed for a 74 day trip, it was too much.<\/p>\n<p>Items like sunscreen can be replaced along the way. I hope the small \u201cstick\u201d works as well as the lotion. A weight savings of 9 ounces compared to my first bicycle tour is a great change to the total weight for my packing list for the Natchez Trace Parkway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Northern Tier I carried the big one on the left. At 10 ounces including the container, with far more sunscreen than I needed for a 74 day trip, it was too much. Items like sunscreen can be replaced along the way. I hope the small \u201cstick\u201d works as well as the lotion. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,27,8,30],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-loaded-touring","tag-natchez-trace-parkway","tag-northern-tier","tag-packing-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}