I’ve compiled a short list, based on previous experience, of essential items to pack when traveling to your less well-developed vacation destinations:
String (one should always listen to one’s father on the topic of string and its potential uses)
Mothballs (indispensable for keeping the roaches from crawling out of your drains)
Duct tape (because you’d be hard-pressed to find any situation in which duct tape is not useful)
Purell (probably futile, but a nice gesture nonetheless)
Mosquito net (for, um, keeping away mosquitoes. That one’s a gimme.)
Rolled up newspaper and a bad attitude (see above re: roaches)
Things to leave at home:
Cute underwear
This last one annoys me. Every time I go someplace where someone else is going to be washing my underwear, I have to leave the cute stuff at home. Where is the fun in that? Peru? Granny panties. Bangladesh? Granny panties. Rwanda? Sadly, granny panties again. (Ok, they're not that bad...but it is weird having one's butt covered when one is not used to that!)
Of course, if feeling frumpy is my gravest concern, I’m doing pretty damn well. ...And I never promised this blog would be deep!
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