Go Somewhere Good

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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. If I could go anywhere, it would be Easter Island. I love to travel, I love airplanes and airports and I love new strange places, but I hate tourists and giant crowds. I like to think Easter Island is this very calm place where the few tourists are chill and I could cuddle up next to a giant, confusing head sculpture in relative peace.
    That being said, I also really want to go all of the places with the crowds, just on the day they aren’t there.

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  3. I’m currently spending the summer in Berlin and I’d like to make some short European trips. Spain or Sicily would be first on my list.

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  4. I think i would go to Alaska, or somewhere up north. I would like to see the stars in a less populated area where they shine brighter because of less city lights.

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  5. I’d go back to Minnesota, where I’ve gone every Summer since I was 10, and visit my two sisters, three nephews, niece, and BIL. My sister and her husband have flown my other (little) sister out every year since she graduated law school. She recently quit being a lawyer to teach and can no longer afford to fly us out. I am a poor college student, and can’t even pay my own way. So this Summer, I don’t get to see what has changed in my niece and nephew over the past year. Not cool.

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  6. Having gotten pretty lucky in the travel department (I’ve lived in Germany for the past year and really taken advantage of RyanAir’s cheap flights…), I would definitely head to northwest Illinois – home. I would pat my parents’ happy dog on the head, relax in the humid IL summer evenings, and then travel to TARGET! Bliss.

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  8. My instinct is to pick something far away, which right now is home. Living abroad is odd that way. But since I’m already headed home in August… honestly I’d like to see Havana, as it is now, before the Castros kick it and the Starbucks and TGIFridays of the west move in to homogenize everything.

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  9. I’m not expecting to be included in the draw, being from NZ and all.

    BUT

    If I could go anywhere, I’d visit my very bestest friend back home in Canada and, by default, meet my beautiful god-daughter born last September. I’m dying to say hello to her!

    Megan, I’m with you on this one. The farther you go, the more home becomes your #1 destination!

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  10. It’s so hard to choose! I very briefly lived in Paris a few years ago and I miss it like crazy, but I think in the vein of seeing something new and less chi-chi I would love to travel to Central or South America. I have friends who grew up in Costa Rica who rave about it, and I’ve always wanted to go to Argentina.

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  14. I’ll teach English in Vietnam. But if I could go anywhere I’d love to go to Sicily and take the boat to Tunisia so I could see all the blue and white my Arabic professor talked about.

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  15. Hah! Funny story…my fiance and I are going to teach English in Vietnam! We leave in September.

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  17. If I could go anywhere, it would be to any beach in January where there isn’t a wind chill.

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  18. My boyf and I are going on a RTW trip for 6months in Sept and I have yet to buy any of these sorts of things; this would make me very happy..

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  20. I would love to go back to Japan with my fiance. He has never been, and I went with a foreign exchange program in high school. I have fond memories of baby octopus, Hiroshima and time spent with my homestay family. Now, I would love to make memories of the palce with him.

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  21. Hmm..tough to choose, but I’m going to have to say New Zealand. Somewhere on the beach, in New Zealand.

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  28. assuming this is a childless trip my top contenders right now are Cambodia, Turkey, Argentina, and Tunisia. The order of preference changes every 10 seconds.

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  29. I would go where I am now… a small island in a big lake in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It’s my hideout, my brain relaxer, my calming potion. It’s where I have breakfast on the dock with the loons singing and the eagles flying overhead.

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  31. I’d love this kit and I’d love to say I’d take it somewhere awesome and exotic but I’d probably take it to either my mom’s or my in-laws’ house. We’ve been going to both places non-stop since our baby came in January.

    If I had a choice, though, I’d totally take it to Vegas! I need to wander around drunk in public again! It’s been entirely too long.

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  32. oh, so badly… i want to go to Greece and/or Croatia. Looking forward to the plankton report!

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  33. i love your travel kit. never thought of traveling with a candle…great tip!

    i would travel to mexico to some all inclusive with my husband. i want a seaside bungalow, all the fruity drinks i can stand and a hunky pool boy to deliver them.

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  34. I would go back to cozumel with my fiance. Its where we went together on our first vacation together, and its where we plan on getting married next year.

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  36. I would love to go to New Zealand. Seems to be the perfect blend of the mountains and the tropics and snuggly animals.

    I would also love to go to the Pacific North West – Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and all the towns in between. I suppose that is a bit more likely to happen someday.

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  37. I spent last Thanksgiving in Hawai’i, and have since decided that I will be retiring there. Or Greece. Or Italy. Maybe I’ll just become so fabulously wealthy that I’ll have homes in all three places.

    A girl can dream.

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  38. I would go to New Zealand, or Vietnam, or South Africa, or skiing in Chile, or, or, or. Sorry, I can’t think of just one place!

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  40. Right now, I’d go to Greece….to visit a friend and swim in those impossibly blue waters.

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  43. Sound of Music is my favorite movie ever. I’ve always had a hankering to go to Salzburg and twirl around on a mountaintop…

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  45. Anywhere? I would take my husband on a honeymoon to Australia, New Zealand, and the Figi Islands. He lost his job three months before we got married and was unemployed for almost a year. Needless to say, we have yet to take a honeymoon…

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  47. While I would love to go to Hong Kong, I don’t see this happening anytime soon. However, I do have a trip planned for the Netherlands in September and this travel kit would be perfect!

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  48. I would go to China again, this time to walk at least a huge section of the Great Wall. I would then hit up Vietnam (I could teach English!) and then on to Angor Wat.

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