Next Stop, o-HI-o

Davis packed it up on Friday. Some people pack conventionally. Some people don't. Davis was a careful blend of the two. He had new kitchenware in its original boxes. He did not discard the boxes and strap the pots and pans to the outside of his car or wherever they would fit. He did, however, open the boxes, remove most of the packaging, and put as many other, loose items as he could fit into the resulting empty spaces.

He also fit the card table into the trunk first thing rather than tie-ing it to the roof. Then he proceeded to fold his clothes into the shapes of the various empty spots and gaps in the underside of the table: some rectangular, some triangular. The packing continued like that from the bottom up. Eventually, he fit:

• a card table,
• four chairs,
• his high-backed desk chair,
• a ten-piece cookware set,
• dishes,
• glassware,
• utensils,
• soccer and bike gear,
• chess set,
• computer,
• printer,
• rice cooker,
• dozens of books,
• all his clothes,
• two sets of bedding and four pillows,
• a three-shelf bookcase,
• a 48 x 20 folding work table, and
• a package of school clothes and other cool items for Emma when he stopped in to visit her and my sister on his way through Dallas

into his Honda Accord. And he did it well enough that it passed the Walter Visibility Test, where Walter sat in the driver's seat and made sure he could see out all three mirrors, all the side windows, and the front and back windows clearly and with no obstruction.

I took pictures:

And you can see from this last picture, he actually has a tad more room for some special shaped item under his helmet and next to his clock. Unfortunately, there was nothing left to pack.

Davis made it to Columbus this afternoon, safe and sound.