Spitfire said:
The fiddliness of the pipe is one of the things that attracted me to pipe smoking in the first place. It requires a bit of time, and it also requires a little forethought. I smoke my pipe rarely; usually only a couple times per month and never more than once per week, yet I cherish it.
I have a small leather pouch in which I keep two small bags of tobacco, a small rusticated Peterson military mount pipe, my lighter/pipe tool combo, and a couple pipe cleaners. From spring to fall it stays in my motorcycle jacket breast pocket so that when I am out riding it is always with me.
My last venture out in the fall was on a crisp late fall day in November and though sunny it was still just above freezing. I stopped at a nearby lake which was deserted save for one fellow running down the lake in a sailboat. I sat and lit up the pipe and spent the bowl doing nothing other than watching the sailboat on probably its last run of the year, listening to my bike's pipes tick in the cold, and enjoying the moment. I have never been able to replicate the same feeling of thoughtfulness or introspection that the pipe brings with a cigar or anything else.
