Go Somewhere Good

Travel

Sandisk slotRadio is sponsoring another present for you. This time I put together a travel comfort kit with some of the things I find useful on trips, which is convenient, because I’m typing this on an airplane right now. If these look familiar, it’s because lots of them are up on Mighty Goods, where I keep all my favorite stuff.

If you win, it’s like God telling you to quit your job and wait tables in Europe. Right? Right.

F1 Two-Zip Dopp

This dopp kit is my very favorite travel thing, and it looks like Flight 001 is discontinuing them. Insanity. The bag is attractive but not twee, well-made, waterproof (so exploding hair goo won’t stain your clothes), and hyper functional. The whole top opens up, so you can see everything at a glance rather than digging around in your bag. Plus, I love how the zippers are attached to the handle, so you can close the bag and throw it in your suitcase in one swoop.

Flight 001 this is madness. Bring back the two-zip dopp, I implore you.

Inside the dopp, I packed a set of nap-anywhere products:

1. Earplugs
2. Eye Shade
3. Travel Pillow

It’s the red-eye trifecta. My preferred eye-shade and neck pillow are also both from Flight 001:

F-1 Night Shade

The one I picked is red, to match your dopp kit. Much more comfy than the crappy ones you pick up at the drugstore.

Comfort Tavel Pillow

I used to travel with one of those cushy neck pillows, but it was impossible to stow conveniently, and a pain to wash. That makes for one filthy pillow, and airplane filth is the reason Purell was invented. Unfortunately, Purell just makes your pillow all sticky.

I switched to inflatable pillows, and have found that the only comfy ones are the ones with knit or fleece covers. This one is fleece, which is a bit bulkier, but more cushy — also, easy to wash.

SlotRadio

As you might expect, our sponsor threw in a Slot Radio, which is an MP3 player that comes pre-loaded with music. It’s tiny, and it’s a time-saver if you want some new music for your trip, but don’t feel like staying up until 3 a.m. downloading stuff.

Travel Candle

For the hotel room, I always like to have a travel candle with me. It dispels funk, and calms you down, but also helps you make scent memories, so the smell of that candle will always remind you of your trip. I love when that happens.

I got you a Botanicus candle in Champagne, because it smelled good. I don’t really have a brand preference when in comes to travel candles, but if you do please tell me in comments. I’m into that stuff.

A Dagoba Organic Chocolate Bar, New Moon

I have to travel with snacks or I get hangry when my blood sugar dips. Dagoba makes satisfying, organic chocolate bars. They’re rich enough that you may actually be satisfied with a few squares. Or you can have it for breakfast. I’m not judging.

Pamela Barsky Luggage Tags

These happy luggage tags have saved me from taking the wrong luggage countless times. The best one reads, “This is not your bag.” Though I keep waiting for someone with the exact same luggage to have the exact same tag.

And that’s it! All right travelers, leave a comment telling me where you would go if you could go anywhere at all, and I’ll use the random number thingie to figure out who gets the goods. I’ll announce the winner this Friday. If you win, you have to go teach English in Vietnam. That’s the deal.

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936 thoughts on “Go Somewhere Good”

  2. What a great goodie bag! I’d love to go visit my very best friend, who just moved to San Francisco, and then on to Greece or Spain!

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  6. In February, 2006 my husband, daughter, and I took the best vacation ever to Disney World and its our dream to go back as soon as humanly possible.

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  8. I want to go to Tokyo!!! Please give me a sign to quit my job and travel… and teach English to all those I encounter.

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  9. Some call this a stay-cation. I call it two bored kids driving me crazy while I secretly count the days down to the return of School. If I had the opportunity (read: money) to go on a proper vacation. I’d be sitting in a beach chair sipping something cold and fruity where they have no Michael Jackson Memorial Tribute blaring from their orafices. Could be anywhere, really, and I’m flexible on the fruity drinks. The MJ Tribute? Not so much!

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  10. Ever since I saw the first photos, I have wanted to go to Petra. Also, when I comes right down to it, I will go anywhere in Italy, at any time, on any day.

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  11. Back to Australia for a visit – haven’t been there in 11 years, this time with husband and kids!

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  13. I would be singing that the hills are alive on top of a mountain in Austria. You know which one.

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  14. Oh! Red is my very favorite color! If I could, I’d love to travel to the UK. All that history…

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  16. If I could go anywhere, I would go everywhere! If I have to choose a spot, I’ve always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef. But since I’m going to Las Vegas (a trip with a good friend that serendipitously fell into my lap) in a couple weeks, this little kit would make the trip even better.

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  18. The dream trip I cooked up today (three parts): To the Alps. In an RV filled with wine. To watch the Tour de France. Viva la Tour!

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  19. I’m totally on board with teaching English in Vietnam, but it will unfortunately have to wait until after I’m done being pregnant. I don’t think I’ll be allowed to travel out of the country soon, divine though that may be.

    Until then, I keep thinking I’ll cross paths with Melissa in Northern MI, since that pretty much covers the extent of my summer vacation plans this year.

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  20. there are so many amazing places in this world i would love to explore… but honestly, if i could go anywhere right now, i would go see my family in florida. i miss them!

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  21. It may be cliche, but I’ve never seen Paris. Or the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba.

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  22. I’d take my daughter to London. The first time she saw the LiLo version of Parent Trap, she was about five. She started sobbing when she saw the London scenes and when I asked her what was wrong she said “It’s so beautiful!”

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  25. I would love to take a safari to Africa. I know it’s kind of dangerous right now, but what is a little travel without danger, right?

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  26. I’m really itching to go to Spain at the moment. I want to eat some manchego, drink some rioja, and flirt with an hombre. Or dos.

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  27. hmm… well, if I could go ANYWHERE it would probably be ireland. but i’m going to new england in three weeks, so don’t tell them that.

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  28. I want to dance with my husband in Venice. He has never been out of the US and I think a trip to Venice would be a great start for him.

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  30. If I could go anywhere it would be outer space. The moon, perhaps. I would love to see the Earth from out there, to see the colors and have the most profound “My God, we are tiny and insignificant” moment ever.

    If you simply must limit me to anywhere on our fair planet, I would go to Scotland. I’ve been there before, but I never wanted to leave, so what better place to go back to?

    Did I mention that I have a trip to Vancouver coming up and I could definitely use your fabulous and well thought out travel kit? I did? Good. 🙂

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  33. I would love to take a trip to Prague. All the beauty and history of Western Europe, a smaller price tag and some Eastern European flair to boot!

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  34. I would go to Ireland. I dream of seeing so many shades of green in one place. Perhaps I should not live in a desert. Hmmn?

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  35. Those luggage tags are awesome! And for some reason I am quite smitten with your candle idea for hotel rooms, despite not really being a candle person in general…

    If I could go anywhere right now, it would be to BlogHer in Chicago later this month, but alas that cannot happen. But I can dream. Maybe next year 🙂

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  36. If I could go anywhere right now, I would go to Alaska. Far from Georgia and probably “exotic” enough to satisfy my travel bug.

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  37. This travel kit looks like amazing! If I could go anywhere right now I would take a trip to Greece. I have wanted to visit ever since a dear old friend of mine told me that it was the best place she ever went on vacation.

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  38. oooh, so many amazing places with amazing people to consider. my husband and i started planning a “honeymoon/retirement” trip–we never honeymooned and will have the time when we retire–to India. Hopefully we’ll find some long term volunteer work to do there as well. I can’t imagine a more interesting, beatiful, chaotic environment to explore. He we come Mumbai!

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  41. If I could travel anywhere, I would go to France for three weeks in July and follow the Tour de France.

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  46. How about English in China? I have a basic grasp of Chinese, so I’d lose less in translation. 😉

    If I could go anywhere, I would go to London, because, A, London!, and, B, the Broad Street water pump, for my dorky, public health historian tendencies!

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  47. Anywhere? I’d go back to Denmark to see if the packet of California Poppy seeds that we spread over my grandmother’s grave ten years ago took over the graveyard.

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