Gone shopping
We’d run out of tea, so I had to run up to Kobos to get some more. We had three 1 pound bags and a 6 oz tin for Russian Caravan, so I needed to get all of them refilled, and then we needed some Assam for variety, so I got a pound of that too. While we were there, I also picked up a couple of glass storage containers (for leftovers; it’s a lot easier to stretch meals out if we can put the remains into the fridge for the next few days, and those leftovers are a lot more appealing if the entire meal isn’t scraped into one big container all mixed up) and a pair of cute tiny coffee cups that were bear-sized and on extreme discount.
And then I crammed all of it into my porteur-randonneur bag and came back home.
The porteur-randonneur bag isn’t perfect (the bias tape I’ve got on it is aggressively not water-resistant, and cheerfully wicks up water and tries to carry it into the body of the bag, and I begin to regret not putting a mapcase onto the top of the bag, and and I need to put a big mesh pocket onto the front of the bag to carry stuff that doesn’t need to be protected from the weather) but the triangular flaps on the side really come into their own when the bag is overstuffed. They seem to do well at relieving the stresspoint where the side panel attaches at the base of the lid, and, obviously, they do a good job of keeping the overflow from flopping out the side and plunging to the pavement when I hit turbulence at 20mph.