Dave is fake packing for his virtual book tour…

Look at me, I’m all packed and ready to go! If you want to follow along on all the “stops” of my book tour, click on Dave’s Virtual Book Tour for the full schedule. Some of them are spotlights of the book, some of them are guest posts, some are interviews — there’s a range, people. In all of them you can enter a giveaway for a free book or Amazon gift card. Why? Because I’m told that’s what really drives traffic! We’ll see…

Which is why I packed shirts I would never ever wear in my fake virtual suitcase. Certainly not that salmon colored floral thingy going on at the top. Or those leather driving gloves. I drive a Prius. Oh, and I love the old click and wind camera that still uses analog film! It’s perfect for taking pictures you never want to get developed!

The title of this stock photography was something like “hipster packing.” It beat out “spy suitcase” pictured below.

Here, I appreciated the magenta scheduler and the orange 3.5 inch floppy disk. Made me really nostalgic for my late teens. The gun at first felt very daring, but then some poor soul out there might freak out and think: “What kind of book tour is this!?! Is he planning to shoot the guests?!?”

That would really destroy the whole vibe I’m going for.

Every traveler needs this precise combination of items…