A four-day weekend packing list
for two adults and a toddler (that recycles outfits) that complies with Ryanair carry on rules.
Category: Misc. Drawer
Super Minimal Winter Packing List #1: Long weekend
A four-day weekend packing list
for two adults and a toddler (that recycles outfits) that complies with Ryanair carry on rules.
Travel Gear: LBD
If you enjoy wearing dresses, and maybe even if you don’t, may I suggest that the most versatile thing in your travel wardrobe could be a little black dress? But it can’t just be any LBD. It needs a certain magic travel-esque quality, to layer well, to transform into other things. It needs to translate […]
Travel Gear: Minimal family carry-on Fall weather packing list
After a successful four day weekend in Paris adhering to Transavia’s strict carry on requirements (two backpacks under 10kg (22 lbs), one stroller, a baby and no personal items!), I’m feeling pretty good about our packing prowess. Skip around using these links: Weather Bags Toddler Packing List My Packing List Spouse’s Packing List Randoms packed […]
Travel gear: Undergarments for light packing
Wanting to pack light and therefore prioritizing efficiency on the road? Then I’m just going to start with this. Underwear: bring lace. The differences between solid cotton and travel tech and lace undergarments became apparent to me while working in humid east Thailand for two months during the rainy season. While my hair and skin […]
Travel Gear: Soap
When I walk by a display of soap and they are stacked up like milky treasures, I think to myself, mine, all mine. I want to cup each bar in my hands and take a protective stance over the rest of the pile. Soap is a weird thing to covet, I admit.
Life as an academic/professional, a poem.
Bye. In place of colors and brushes, I scan. In place of soap and wax, I ogle. In place of thinking, I search. In place of typing, I buy. Purchase, distract, Discard. I miss creating.
Food Craving: Travel edition
What you’re looking at is an example of a daily staple in my diet over here: fresh squeezed juice, fried bananas, squash, and taro. And as I said goodbye to the cranky fruit man for the last time yesterday, it got me thinking about the food you find yourself depending on abroad. For me, […]
MoodTrapping: Read me when you’re feeling overwhelmed
Think of it like Expat Blues, Where-Am-I-Insomnia, or What-Have-I-Been-Doing-With-My-Life-Introspection. People document this stuff every day and charge you $30 to read about it. I’ve decided to write about it here.
thanklessly giving.
Last year for Thanksgiving I was in a foreign country, surrounded by a motley assortment of Europeans and Americans. Only the American expats really had any clue as to what was going on and that’s not saying much as we tried to salvage and persuade the others to the merits of a completely American tradition. […]
