> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.novaugust.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Moving Again - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/the-contents-of-my-car/ - Published: 2015-09-16T16:18:09.000Z - Updated: 2015-09-30T01:35:33.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: vanlife, @christophertrudeau, post, @erikkallman, @jennopolis55, @ken_hilton307, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 I haven't lived in a single spot for longer than six months in the last five years. In just one year in Jackson I claimed five different homes. That's part of the reason for me saying "Awh, heck with it" and moving into my car this summer. Yet here I am again, in the process of moving from one ~~home~~ car to another. My trusty 2008 RAV4 is spending a few weeks in the shop while I go climb northeast Wyoming. Thankfully, a smaller home means a smaller moving day - I didn't even need friends for the heavy lifting this time! ![Junk and stuff](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/20150916_100603-1.jpg) For fun, here's all the things I've been living my life with. - 90's car camping tent. Why do I have this. It's huge and has yet to be deployed, because it's a pain in the ass. Is it... for the ladies? Keep dreaming Matt - backpacking tent (what I actually deploy) - BD chalk resupply - a bag clearly marked "〒 JAPANESE MAIL" into which I store my dirty underwear. - a dirty pair of underwear I thought I lost long ago (moving day score!) - chalkbag x2 (one handmade with a buffalo on it - <3 kalle) - 2.5 trad racks - 12 sport draws (it was 15 at the start of the summer...) - 60 and 70 meter ropes - climbing helmet - a bag full of bags. uh. - a big tarp some Euro bought and then left to me (hi Erik!) - black diamond alpine climbing pack (Note to self: get something bigger in here before you head to the Creek) - 0 degree down sleeping bag (aka, my blanky) - neoair sleeping pad (aka, my bed) - eggshell sleeping pad (aka, the thing that keeps my bed from popping when I'm sleeping under the open) - pillows x3 (!?!??! I'M REALLY BAD AT THIS) - toiletries! I don't actually use them. Ever. Hygiene is gross. - a shovel for digging poop holes - no toilet paper :/ - injury things - drugs, but none of the fun kind. Maybe it's time to break something again... - chacos, brah. - 5.10 casual approach shoes I bought in [London](https://blog.novaugust.net/england-reading-oxford/), allowing me to throw away the only pair I had taken to [Europe](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/europe-2015/) - a cooler given to me by the lovely Barbara Stone, who in turn received it from a GTNP tourist who realized it wouldn't quite fit carry-on - 2 burner stove - fullsize propane tank (seriously) - wyoming guidebooks - vedauwoo (kelman's) - the tetons (the rotten blue book) - the jackson area (gooch's) - tensleep (the bible) - lander (2015 baby!) - travel coffee mug - patagonia.. - beanie - down sweater - alpine houdini - a yoga mat so heavy that a car is the only reasonable way to transport it - specialized tricross bicycle - PBR 24 pack. *climbers...* - "Soccer Mom" camp chair - thailand picnic mat - arc'teryx atom LT - 6 gallon water tank - 2x 5.10 moccasyms, sized 10.5\. One I'm just carrying around until I find a place to scatter its ashes? - a large bag of groceries - cookware - the ultimate pancake, french toast, grilled cheese, quesadilla cooking cast iron with no walls. Your mom's jealous. - a cast iron I sympathy stole from Sam and Anna - a non-stick frying pan that I need to ditch now that I stole the cast iron from Sam and Anna. hashtag deadweight - a bread knife, that is not good - a shitty knife - another not good knife, but this one's black and tiny - TITANIUM TRIPLE SILVERWARE SET because I am a BALLER. they're all on a pimpin' little carabiner that's too small for them to have written NOT INTENDED FOR CLIMBING on, which means I can use it, right? - an orange dish that's too big and from which I often eat waaaaaay too much granola and yogurt in the morning, pushing back climbing start times by up to half an hour while I digest (Ken Hilton's called me out on it more than once) - a large cutting board. so, so nice. makes me pretty popular in groups (unlike my personality and looks) - a french press which similarly makes me popular with friends, but is annoying when it's just me. I'm jealous every time I see Hilton and Trudeau utilize their pour-overs. - a frisbee - a frisbee. they're multi purpose. - dos 1L nalgenes, one that glows in the dark so I'm not scared in the night - 4 rolls of tape, because I'm going to Vedauwoo this week... - bear spray, which I have remembered to bring with me when climbing in the Tetons exactly 0 times. - sunscreen - 2 pairs of suncloud sunglasses, at least one of which bounced 250 feet down [No Perches Necessary](https://blog.novaugust.net/teton-cragging/) only to land and stop right next to my pack. Both are scratched to hell, and actually *impede* vision - bike helmet. not the cool kind. - bike lock. you can't read any of the numbers on it anymore - a blue headlamp - a green duffle I made in junior high homec class, which barely contains my 2 button downs, 3 icebreaker tees, 2 cotton shirts, 3 pairs of undies, 2 pairs of socks, 2 pair o' shorts (I'm wearing the jeans) - my timbuk2 "messenger bag" purse, which often contains - this laptop - a kindle (amazing for this lifestyle) - a red headlamp - a camera and its two lenses - a variety of shades of mascara and lipstick to suit my mood - a water bladder with some nice algae clopping up the exit - a skinny ski's 40th anniversary rubber pint glass. If someone brings a keg to the crag again, I'll be ready. - trekking poles. I have had old man knees since I was 19 - a ceramic dragon bell my mother-across-the-pacific gave me for my 24th birthday and which I have successfully not shattered in all this time. 母ちゃん、ありがとう！大好きよ〜〜 (I'm a dragon, it was the year of the dragon, y'know) - my passport. I was wondering where that was! - ohhhhh hey a platypus bottle! awesome! Sylvia gave this to me after she won it at some snow movie event in Lander. Wait no, her friend Jenn did! Jenn plays cribbage. - A sticker proclaiming "I <3 [TCLIB](http://tclib.org/?ref=blog.novaugust.net)" ![The new home](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/20150916_141137.jpg) *The new place* --- In other news, I'm making a bit of money again here and there, without selling my body (Not for lack of trying. Get in touch, ladies. I have a big .... tent). ![Coding at Coal Creek with a Cap](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/download_20150916_164535.jpg) *Remembering climbing isn't all I can do: Coding at Coal Creek with a Cap*