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”

  4. Anywhere? With my anniversary coming up on the 11th of July (6 years!) I’m inclined to say Oahu, to the same place we honeymooned…it’s nice to relive those memories that started our marriage.

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  6. Anywhere in the whole world? Well, I’d sure like to explore South America with my newly learned Espagnol! 🙂

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  11. I’d go back to Kathmandu! Friendly people, excellent food and I loved the city insanely when I lived there.

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  12. I’d go back to the Bay Area and eat salted-caramel ice cream in Dolores Park. Since I’ve left SF, I realize why everyone loves that city so.

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  15. the trek that takes you to the Mt. Everest base camp. Or to visit my friend from college who lives in Paris (and she’s been there for 3 years! and I haven’t gone to visit!). Or Spain? This may be why I end up not going anywhere…

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  19. This kit is fantastic! I would go to Morrocco next, I think. Either that or do a tour of Scotland/Ireland.

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  22. Love the dopp kit. 🙂

    There are SO many places I’d like to go. But truthfully? If I could go anywhere in the world right now, I’m a bit embarrassed to say I’d go to my hometown in Minnesota. It’s been too long since my daughter has seen her grandparents.

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  23. I’ll take that deal! I’m 5’11”, so I’ll just use shock and awe to teach small Vietnamese people English. And I make documentaries, so I’ll film the whole experience and send you a custom DVD!
    I travel all the time, 90% for work, so I end up in places I would never choose on my own. And each one is a wonderful adventure. If I could go anywhere, I’d go to Cameron Castle in Scotland to meet my distant relatives, then head to St. Andrew’s Old Course for a round of 18. After that, it’s single malt scotch in a warm, cozy pub.

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  24. It’s a toss up between the beach- Puerto Rico, Costa-Rica, or Hawaii preferred, but I’ve also never been to San Diego, so that works too- or a road trip around Oregon & Seattle to escape the texas heat! I hear there are beaches in Oregon, too… hmmm.

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  25. A year and a half ago, I was in Spain and took the ferry to Morocco. I was supposed to spend a half day there, but storms blew in. After one hour, our tour guide hurried us down to get the last boat back to Spain.

    The place was lovely. I want to visit again. So, Morocco is the place to visit next!

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  26. I need to go to Italy, not want, but need. I feel like it’s calling my soul, and seriously, how can I deny that?

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  27. I love the luggage tags. I have a couple of hot pink ones with snappy sayings on them to match my hot pink luggage. I loved them passionately until I saw an 8 year old girl with the same luggage and realized that maybe I have a little too much pink in my life.

    But if I could go anywhere…I think I’d go back to Russia, but to a different city. I’d love to see the White Nights in St. Petersburg.

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  29. I would go back to Thailand and visit my orphans, and because this is a totally hypothetical situation I would also bring them childhoods-with-parents and also not-having-HIV, but then I would figure out a way to keep this from messing up the space-time continuum and making it so I’d never met them.

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  34. I’ve always wanted to go to Australia, but have been a tiny bit wary of the long flight. Obviously the flight would fly by with this kit. Pick me, pick me!

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  35. I’d pack my bags, grab my hubby, and head to Italy. We had tickets to Rome five years ago, but when it came to fly, I was about 8 months pregnant, so we didn’t go.

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  37. Coming out of the woodwork for this awesome giveaway. I travel nationally a few times a year.
    However, I would love to visit Ireland, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Greece… *sigh* Pretty much the other half of the Northern Hemisphere. Then eventually we’ll work our way south.

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  38. I would take a trip to California. I’ve never been there and I have been told that it is so beautiful I would never want to leave. Is that true?

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  40. I would love to travel throughout South America, with longer stays in Brazil, Peru, and Argentina to visit with friends. 🙂

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  41. If I could travel anywhere, I would go to Italy w/ my husband, to visit the family he’s never met. We would travel across the country, eating as we go!

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  42. if i could go anywhere, i would plan an awesome all-out european honeymoon for me and my man. We just got married May 2nd and since he is a fireman and i’m in med school we couldn’t afford to go on a honeymoon. We’ve always talked about taking a trip through europe, buying a eurail pass and just spending a month seeing everything we want to see, and then never coming back. That’s where i would go.

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  45. Greece or Italy, actually both and stops all around. Warm air, bright sun, blue water. Beautiful things to see, fantastic food to eat, good wine to drink and a comfortable place to sleep.

    This is a trip for our future. Hopefully not to distant future. There are four children, seven years down to twelve weeks. Just a little while till we can make this happen.

    Oh to dream.

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  47. probably too late to enter, but because I am actually ON a trip I thought I’d give it a whirl. I am headed to Cologne, Germany, and have already been in Dublin and Paris this week. So right now, if I had to pick somewhere to go…I’d go home. 🙂 But alas, not until Saturday.

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  49. This travel kit is so nice maybe I’d just take a round trip back to where I started and enjoy the ride! OK, but if I haaad to stop somewhere it might be Japan. That’s my dream trip.

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  50. I’d go anywhere warm! My feet are just about numb with cold right now. The F-1 Night Shade is so dreamy I’d be able to use it here to hide behind while I imagine summer in the northern hemisphere.

    I feel better just thinking about that!

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