overloaded jon boat
For the record, I am not a big camper. However, at least one of my brothers is into "bike packing" and two are Marine officers with, shall we say, some experience sleeping in tents. The bike packer brother suggested a bike packing trip to False Cape State Park in extreme SE Virginia and the rest us six brothers in all, said sure.
There were zoom calls to plan and lists, spreadsheets as well to track yet more logistics than a single overnight would seem to merit. As we advanced the planning it was clear that more goods, like a fully loaded cooler, would need to come into the campground than could be bike packed. Enter the idea of a boat.
And so it was that a 10' Jon boat with a cranky outboard was overloaded with gear to make a seven mile trip down Virginia's Back Bay to the state park campsite. Five went by bike and I piloted the little Jon boat to and from the campsite.