Prepping to bike the Rhine

We're doing a family trip starting today - the first part will be all 4 of us, traveling the Rhine on a boat/bike tour starting in Strassbourg, biking downstream every day. Then the second part will be Eric and Kenny in England, and Peter and I continuing along the Rhine, starting an independent trip.

I'm starting to pack  - actually I've been setting things aside, that I'll bring, for quite some time. Now I'm just sorting through what I'm actually going to bring. I'm very much a minimalist in travel, but I do want to bring a few more clothes with than I did last time. On the last trip I got heartily sick of those few items I brought with. I decided that optimizing for minimalism and ultralight  probably wasn't the way to go for the next time.   

It's still pretty minimalist, though. 








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