All my crap
When I started thinking about stuff to take, I used my experience on past trips and talked to others. I always tend to take too much stuff, and this time was no exception. Later, I'll post what I think "not to take" that I took.
Here is a picture of the stuff I took, excluding clothing, which I will cover in a minute:
1: House. I took a rather inexpensive tent, which served me very well, but we did not have major rain storms. The fly on this tent looks like it was designed by a stylist rather than Sir Edmund Hillary, but as I said, it worked OK. In my house I had a camping pillow, a sleeping bag, and the new Thermarest air mattress, which packs much smaller, is more comfortable, and has a non-skid surface that I like.
2. Kitchen: I took the standard tiny backpacking stove with a blend fuel, a 42 year old aluminum cooking pot about big enough to put in stove, fuel, lighter, and plastic coffee cup, spoon and/or fork. I got two MSR water bladders which have the advantage of feeling like big boobies. I took a water purifying device but never used it, being rather careful to fill up Camalbak and water boobies frequently. I took several Mountain House Freeze dried entrees and bought more at a Walmart. I took little packets of Starbucks Coffee available at Walmart now, and packets of sugar and creamer that I scam from restaurants. I took a small bottle of palmolive antibacterial detergent for washing dishes, changing tires, and washing clothes.
3. Garage: I took a front and back tubes (Do NOT try to get by with only a front, ask Richard Gibbens about this), patches, rubber cement (check yours it's probably dried out), two tire irons, bead buddy, a tiny compressor, basic tools, a leatherman, some spare bolts (but not the one I needed when my headlight fell off), zip ties, various tapes, parachute cord, a large tire patch to be used as a boot if a tire split, voltmeter (and I can use it) fuses, and a short length of wire, as well as some cool environmental splices that crimp on and then seal with a lighter. I took a spare clutch cable and throttle cables. I should have taken brake shoes. No spare bulbs, they are too hard to store without breakage and you can buy them along the way; I did buy a low beam (H7) in Salida Colorado. I took, but never used, a one gallon gas container. I have done this several times. I never filled it up and rolled into town with less than 30 miles to go on a tank. Remember, Jorge and Ron had KLRs, the supertanker of bikes. I have found that at my offroad speeds, I get around 60-70 mpg, so my bike will go as far as theirs. I did take and always have a siphon hose and about 30' of strong nylon rope for towing.
4. Bathroom: Toilet paper, Wet wipes which took the place of a shower very well, Gold Bond powder that makes you smell like Grampa, lotion and Carmex (you will really bake yourself dry). Cheap *** camp towel from walmart. Baby shampoo in case you pick up a stray baby on the trip.
5. Electronics: Spot device, Iphone, 2 gps's. Should have brought ear buds but didn't. Note: Singing loudly to self at over 10,000 feet can cause dizziness and may lead to projectile vomiting. The Iphone served as a camera, porn storage, backup GPS, Weather Radar, and, uh, phone. Don't expect a signal most of the time, however.
6. Gun: Glock .357 Sig cal. holds 13 in a mag and 13 in the other mag and makes a lot of noise. I took, and lost along the way, a really nice laser sight. See, there were these other campers that were entertained in some way by the laser sight, and I drank too much scotch, and the sight is no doubt laying on the grass at a campsite in Wyoming. Upper Red Rock, last tent sight on the left.
7. Maps: Butler motorcycle maps and atlases, I would bring them again.
8. Checkbook (who knows?)
9. Camelbak: I left my cheapy at home and stopped at a Cabela's in Salt Lake City which was full of Stepford wives and husbands. The one I bought cost about $95 and had a ton of straps to whack you on the bike. Also handy pockets for blood sugar test device and insulin.
That's all I can think of now, probably come back and edit later.