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. Maybe back to Dublin? Or off to Canada to see what all those awesome Canadian bloggers keep talking about!

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  3. I would take my husband and 10 month old to Ireland and then to Germany to see where my family came from! And after I think I would take them to Sicily. I went to Sicily a few years back for work and it was beyond awesome and I have been dying to go back, but this time with my family.

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  4. This is an awesome travel kit! Hmmm, if I could go anywhere right now I think I’d pick the Netherlands to visit friends who moved there last year.

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  7. anywhere in the WORLD? Greece, obviously. or wherever you recommend, since you’ve been around the block a time or two.

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  8. I would also love to take a trip to Paris… something I’ve dreamed about for years and years. I’m planning on going once I’m finished with my degree as a little ‘good job, self,’ trip. 🙂

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  9. Too adorable. I would go back to Sevilla, claro.

    Or maybe Prague. I just like the idea of going to Prague for some reason.

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  10. I would go to Delaware because that is where al my family and dearest friends are and I miss them terribly.

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  11. Anywhere at all? Egypt, I think. I was named after Alexandria, and I learned to read hieroglyphs in grad school (though I’ve forgotten most of them). Though if I could have time travel as well as space, I’d go adventuring through the Middle Eastern deserts with Gertrude Bell.

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  13. I really, really, really want to see Mount Everest. I don’t want to climb Mount Everest, I just want to stare up at it. For days.

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  14. Too much good stuff… must comment… I would either go to Russia, to see all the gorgeous churches, or to England to indulge my Brit Lit obsession 🙂

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  16. I will totally swap places with any of the commenters who want to come to Ireland! 🙂

    My dream trip is a two-parter: fjording in Norway and then a plane ride north to see the northern lights in Finland and stay at the ice hotel in Kemi.

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  18. Ooh! Those are awesome, and essential.. If I could go anywhere, I’d go to Punta Arenas, Chile.

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  22. I would go to the Florida Keys – white sand and blue blue water and good ol’ southern hospitality – perfect combination!

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  24. I would GLADLY go teach English in Vietnam if it meant getting the heck out of dodge for a while. But if my options were broader, I could envision visits to Spain, Mexico, UK, Hawaii, and/or a million other places on the horizon.

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  26. I’d go back to San Francisco – my husband and I took our honeymoon there and I LOVED it. I’m a country mouse but I’ve been to a lot of big cities for work and San Francisco is the only place I ever felt really comfortable visiting and was sad to leave.

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  27. I taught English in Taiwan, so I could do Vietnam, why not if I had this travel bag! So many amazing places I want to go, but right this second I am thinking African safari, tree house hotel, exotic animals…

    p.s. Congrats on the Intel sponsor of your life list! So envious (admittedly) and inspired that I rushed out and started jotting down my own which I can’t wait to start checking off!

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  29. I would go back to Rome in a heartbeat. If winning this means God is telling me to work in a trattoria, so be it. 🙂

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  30. I would drop everything and go to Santorini. I think I’d make my living learning how to make feta cheese.

    Congrats on your new sponsorship!

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  31. If I won, I would actually take a honeymoon when I get married in September, not just go back to work the following Monday. But I would probably just go to Mexico because I would still be pretty poor.

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  33. Peru, India are the big dreams. In the near future–Knoxville, TN-twin godsons at 2 months.

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  34. I think Italy is next on my list. Not that I’m very far down my list! I could cross off at least one of my life list items, though!

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  35. I would go to Italy, along with many other readers it seems. But first I would lose 10 lbs, so that I could stuff myself with yummy pasta, vino, and gelato and still fit into my clothes for the trip home. 🙂

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  36. Oh, I’d go back to Australia in a heartbeat. I spent 4 months studying abroad there, and have longed to take my husband and show him around! Plus, I’ve had a hankering for their mango smoothies for like, uh, over 4 years now. Ahem.

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  38. What a great travel kit! If I could go anywhere right now, I’d go for a backpacking trip around Southeast Asia — Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, etc. Have a good trip!

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  39. Tokyo!

    (luckily am getting married in a month and heading there with husband-to-be. but i’d rather be there right now!)

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  40. We unexpectedly got custody of a family members two daughters, but prior to that my husband and I were planning a month long trek through Ireland and England. While we still hope to do it in the future with our new daughters, it’s been backburnered until the adoption is complete. So if I could go anywhere, it would be that trip that we had planned.

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  43. If I could go anywhere, I’d take a bicycle tour of Tuscan vineyards. That’s my dream one day.

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  44. I think I’d actually like to see San Francisco and New York! (But I am in Brazil, so I don’t think I’m eligible for the kit… 😦 )

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  45. There is a J.W. Waterhouse exhibit going on in London right now at the Royal Academy of the Arts. I would SO go there if I could. With the travel bag, of course.

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  46. Internationally, I’d like to go Iceland. Domestically, I’ve been itching to go to Big Bend National Park for years now.

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  47. Ever since I went to New Zealand, I feel like I’m seriously offending Australia for not even stepping foot on that continent. Obviously, I need to go snorkeling there.

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  48. Quitting my job to wait tables in Europe is extremely tempting some days. For that matter, I would go teach English in Vietnam, too.

    But if I had to pick a vacation spot, it would be Paris. Or Bali. Or Greece. Or Brazil. Maybe I should just throw a dart at a map.

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  50. my summer travel plans actually involve doing a cross-country move with a toddler and a cat. fun! i think these travel items would be pretty handy for that, too. but if i could go anywhere? by myself? i’d do a round-the-world trip, stopping in one country on each continent. there are too many places for me to go to pick just one, and at least that way i’d get a taste of a lot of different places. Can you throw a plane ticket into that travel kit too? 🙂

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