Well, this is like the dilemma of going to visit other Mudcatters.... what instruments and songbooks to pack??? ("What do you want to sing?" "I dunno, whadda YOU wanna sing?" "Do you know.....?" "No, how about....." "Wrong key...." "Yeah me too.....")

AND travel light to conserve energy in short supply!

WEEKS of fretting!!! Autoharp? No good, as I play it, without new and somewhat fragile amp. Aaaarrrghhh!!! Right now I can't even load it in the car by myself!

I finally resolved it. In a medium-size, hard plastic gun case rests one of the two small plucked psalteries that usually lives there in padding. But for the trip, in place of the other alternate key psaltery, is a very small washboard, the Gospel Singer's Wordbook, two copies of Rise Up Singing, some picks, and the therapeutic claves. And I bet I overpacked. The rest I am taking in my brain and throat, and armloads of hugs will cover the rest.

~S~