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”

  1. I would get back to California. Not the most faraway place, but I’ve only really been when I was a kid to see the sights. I want to get back and do Yosemite, San Fran, the coastline.. and bring my husband with me!

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  2. I’d go to Spain and learn flamenco. Okay, that’s a lie. I’d sign up for lessons but never go, but I would wear flamenco shoes and eat lots of chorizo

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  5. I would go to Canada next year for the Olympic games. It’s on my life list! 🙂 Have fun this week!

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  6. I would love to go to Greece! I have never traveled overseas though, so anywhere is fine by me!

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  8. Great travel kit! I would go to London. I went as a wee tyke, but I was too young to fully appreciate it. I’d love to go back and revisit landmarks and make new memories!

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  11. I’d be happy to be a lot of other places right now…anywhere but my desk in my dark, windowless office.
    – A cottage in Maine near the ocean
    – A secluded cabana on a white sandy beach (exact location not important)
    – Backpacking through Europe
    – Cuba
    – The Boundary Waters
    – Costa Rica

    I’m open…

    Thanks, Mighty!

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  13. A one bedroom cabin overlooking the water on the coast of British Columbia. With husband, wood burning stove, red wine, a deck of cards and 10 days of no plans.

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  14. Hmmm. At this point, probably Prague, Edinburgh, or Manchester. I have some unfinished business in Manchester…

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  15. I would fly back to the UK to visit my mum. I live in the US now and don’t get to see her.
    Ooh, or I’d go to Japan. Or Belgium. Or Mexico! I’m not picky. Anywhere would be nice really.

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  19. First – to DC to drop off the kids with Grandma and Grandpa.
    Second – my husband and I to the Scandanavian countries and part of Russia.

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  21. I would return to Igls, Austria. I visited that city while on a study abroad trip, and it was beautiful, quiet, and filled with kind people. I would love to share that place with my husband. Thanks for the opportunity to win, Maggie!

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  22. OOOOOh – somewhere near the water. I realize this is pedestrian, but I haven’t been out of town in over a year and I’ll take anything I can get.

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  24. I’d go back to the Alhambra in Spain in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, most of my traveling is going to conferences.

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  25. Venice, Italy.
    With only 58 days until I turn 40 I’ve left it a little late to do anything spectacular in the countdown, but I am going to finally apply for a passport. This bag goes very well with that concept.

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  27. Because I am 6 weeks away from my due date with Baby #2, I wish I could be in Las Vegas by the pool sipping a mimosa in a hot little bikini. But let’s be real… I’d go to France in a heartbeat and hike through the South of France.

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  28. Assuming I had the time and babysitters in place, I’d love to check out the Greek Isles. Now, any chance you can help with that whole time/babysitting thing? 🙂

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  31. Oh I would take my boyfriend across Canada. Since we moved to the north (Yukon) we need to see the rest of the south to remind us of how Canada is beautiful south of 60 too! 🙂

    Home sweet home!

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  32. I need to get myself to Latin America. Anywhere really but Costa Rica, Argentina and Chile are frontrunners. Mi corazon esta en America Latina!

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  33. My real dream, expensive-as-anything, may-never-happen destination is Norway. I want to hike, see fjords, see other green things and buy a rumoured $6 apple.

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  35. I’ve been wanting to go to NYC since I was 17 (that was a long time ago!) and I want to go desperately badly. I cannot explain why I haven’t made the trip yet. So, either there or to Berlin to visit my college roommate.

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  36. I need to go anywhere with a beach and an ocean and some sun. I am so not picky about where this needs to be!!!

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  40. Well, I had always wanted to go to St. Martin and now have a trip there planned for this October so this kit could really come in handy!

    Other than that, I’d love to visit Ireland, wander around Paris, stroll the streets of Italy… I’d go anywhere.

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  41. If I could go anywhere I’d go to Wyoming! I love horses and big beautiful skies. But, if I went I don’t know if I’d make it back—sounds too good to be true!

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  43. I would finally take a trip to Italy…I’ve been wanting to go for years, but something always seems to come up…

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  44. I have never been off the continent, so I think I would visit Europe. I especially want to see Ireland.

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  49. JAPAN! I’m getting married next year, and our dream honeymoon would be to fly into Tokyo for some culture, shopping and huge city madness, then fly to Osaka for food and a sumo match, the maybe a week in the country side for a bit of Zen. Of course ideally, I’d like to see Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam also, then go back to Thailand and Singapore, but I guess I will take what I can get!

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  50. It’s not dramatic, but more than anything I want to go to Campobello Island, in down-down-down-east Maine, and watch the sunrise in an Adirondack chair while I’m swaddled in fleece and dip my feet in a frigid Maine ocean and look for seaglass and eat lobster twice a day and feel my heart crack open a little wider.

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