OK. I already covered the pack. No, no food. If I was using it for an event, it contained odds and ends. Clothing changes, etc. The big thing is that it had a map pocket in the top flap so it was easy to tuck any tickets and directions in a handily accessible place. It may be here still. It looks like I must conduct a comprehensive inventory. Because I am also missing a .357.
I don't like gun safes. If someone is trying to murder you I really am not too keen on the idea of having to hunt for a key. And the key has to be hidden at least relatively well or the point of having a safe is moot. I have a captains bed so I used to keep my guns under the bed. Pull out a drawer, slide the guns in on the floor, put the drawer back. Simple. Elegant. Theoretically effective. BUT. My Kentucky house was humid. This was made worse because I did not understand Kentucky humidity and let it get out of control when I first moved. So my guns were rusting. The leather and wood were getting moldy. So I had to pull them out from under the bed and tuck them in a closet.
After 2 years I got burglarized. They were looking for guns. They left laptops and expensive watches and other things of value and only took guns. Professional thieves. They missed a pistol and left a rifle. I have 3 theories beyond random target, but that's neither here nor there, the point is, I moved not long after that (not because of the burglary) so I installed a gun safe. But I hated the idea of having my guns locked up. So, over time they've found their way out. The pistol that wasn't stolen stayed where it was. I found a good hiding place for another (that I'd bought to replace a stolen one). Eventually I just stuck another in an obvious place that the previous one got stolen from because I just was tired. All the long guns are still locked up for now.
Amazingly, the cops recovered my .357 within a week of the burglary. It took almost a year to get it back, but that's another story. It was the only gun I got back. But that's another story. Well tonight I decided to find a Safe place to hide it so it would be handy if I needed it. Opened up the safe and it wasn't there. Obviously some previous night I'd decided to find a Safe place to hide it--and then forgot about it. A cursory search failed to recover it. So clearly I need to take the place apart and locate this goddamn firearm. Because I'm 98% certain someone didn't just break in and steal that particular item--when it is more likely I put it Someplace Safe Where No One Would Find It. On the plus side I may find the backpack back in the process--maybe with a revolver in it.
Meanwhile, as I type this, The Dog goes nuts in an "I KILL YOU!" barking frenzy over some invisible enemy that makes me even more jangly and in need of another cocktail.
