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”

  1. several weeks ago my family was playing a game and this was one of the questions. the answers were secret until revealed, and both of my kids said paris, as did i. so, i’d LOVE to take my kids to paris.

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  2. Costa Rica – This is a locale I’ve had on my list for several years. A couple years ago we went to Belize – so I’m getting closer!

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  3. Scotland! Or Ireland…..its a tough choice. How about we just say both since I would already be over there for the one anyway….

    I have to say, I love that you are getting to do stuff on your mighty list! I look forward to reading about all the cool things you get to experience over the next few months. Keep up the good work!

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  4. If I could go anywhere, I’d go island hopping around Greece and Spain with my girlfriends. We’d all find hot Mediterranean med to have scandalous affairs with now that we’re all old and married. Or, we’d drink too much grapa and tell each other how much we love each other in that “drunk girl” way that girls do and then go to bed early. Either way, we’d have a fabulous time.

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  6. I have been dreaming about Buenos Aires for 12 years, since I was studying Spanish in high school. So, that.

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  7. New Zealand. In a heartbeat. In an accelerated, whoa-do-you-think-we-should-call-the-doctor heartbeat.

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  8. If money weren’t an option, and I could have a month or two off work, I would visit my very best friend ever who now lives in Oslo, Norway… I would pick her up and then we would travel all over Europe together. Doing fun girlie things. Drinking lots of wine. Eating lots of cheese. And laughing. Oh there would be laughing!

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  9. Spain, because siestas and sangria are two of my very favorite things. With enough of both, I might forget that I spent this entire summer studying for the bar exam.

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  11. I would like to go to the tippy tip south tip of the Florida Keys. Also, one day, to Cuba.

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  12. greece. or croatia. or japan. does it include food spending money? if so, definitely japan – i would gorge myself on the best sushi i could get.

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  13. Paris is my destination of choice. I wanted to go there for my fortieth birthday and never managed it. It’s now been put back on the list to be done for my fiftieth.

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  14. I would go to Argentina. More specifically to Buenos Aires for the crazy fusion of European and Latin culture.

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  15. Spain is at the top of my list– I wrote my senior thesis in college on Antoni Gaudi and his architecture, but I’ve never been there to see it in person.

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  16. I’m responding as much for the shot at teaching in Vietnam as I am for the travel kit !

    If I could go anywhere, I would go to Greece. I have never been, and Oh Baby (as my step dad would say – I love my step dad). My grandmother adored Greece, and I want to go see what all the fuss was about. And maybe renew my wedding vows in one of those mountain top chapels. (Oh Baby !)

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  18. this is so great maggie! if i could go anywhere in the world i’d go back hoome to the southwest of england (plymouth to be exact) for my granny’s 90 birthday lunch this summer.

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  19. Ooh I love all these things. I would go to San Francisco first – my best friend lives there, swear I’m not stalking you. Also it happens to be my favorite place even without a best friend.
    Next I would go to New Zealand, Japan, France, and Brazil, with an extended finish in Switzerland.

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  21. Um, um…. I would go to London with my husband (who I think is actually British despite his birth certificate from New York).

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  22. If I could take a trip anywhere, it would be tuscany! Thanks for the free give-aways!! Good luck with your Mighty List!! I think it’s awesome you have the opportunity to do some of the things on your list! I made my own list after reading yours!

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  24. Oh, I hope I win! My mom just got back from Russia and said it’s amazing! Maybe I’ll go there….

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  27. Where would I go? Anywhere at all, you say? Anywhere tropical with my husband where we can sip slushy drinks and not have to cut anyone’s meat for a whole week. Parenting young children calls for that sort of vacation from time to time. And it’s definitely Vacation o’clock here!

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  28. I would go to Machu Picchu with my husband! So lame and predictable, I know, but that’s the way lifetime dreams are 🙂

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  29. If I could go anywhere it would be Tokyo, Japan. I have been fascinated with that city from afar for decades (!), now. I once said I would go by my 35th birthday, there’s still 1.5 half years to make that happen…

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  32. I would do an Ansell Adam’s styled trip of all of the American National Parks with my baby (4.5 months old called Gemma), camera (Canon 30D) and husband (Tony as head sherpa)

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  33. Australia! I went to Sydney twice for work, and I fell in love with the place. “Go back to Australia” is one of the items on my life list. 🙂

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  37. i don’t know if i could decide…i want to go EVERYWHERE! i had a dream last night i was on the coast of greece and it was pretty fabulous, so i guess i will choose that for this!

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  38. I want to take my husband-in-two-months to Italy. We’ll be having a mini-moon on the California coast just after the September 6th wedding, but once we save up enough, I’m taking him to see where I used to live in Bologna.

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  39. Dream destinations change so frequently…… i would LOVE to go to Vietnam. please make me go 🙂
    (This year have also been itching to go the Way Out West Music Festival in Goteborg Sweden – Wilco is playing)

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  41. now that’s what a call a travel kit! love the inclusion of the dagoba chocolate, by the way…i’m much less accepting of strangers in close quarters when chocolate’s involved.

    no vacations for me this year…i heart the recession. but if i got to choose, i’d so love to be wandering the streets of florence right now!

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  42. Absolutely, hands down: Nepal. I need to see Everest with my own eyes. No need to climb the fool thing, though!

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  43. Sweet prize! I’m leaving Europe after living here for 3 years and heading to Hawaii for a few years there. I’ve got some airline miles ahead of me and that pillow would see some serious drool.

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  44. If I could take a vacation anywhere it would have to be Australia. At least that’s where I’d like to go right this moment. Ask me again in ten minutes.

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  46. I know it’s a cliche, but there’s a reason clean sandy beaches studded with palm trees is such an inviting image.

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  48. Let’s see, I would go to Ireland, then tour the 50 states, and then I would hile the Appalachian Trail. I know you only asked for one, but this is mighty girl, right? 🙂

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  49. I’d take my sister to Cabo for an awesome bachelorette party! (And we’d for sure take that cute little bag; it’s precious.)

    P.S. — I love Tyler Candle Co., especially their “man” scents like Cowboy and Leather.

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  50. I would definitely be on a tropical island somewhere… right out of a Corona commercial.

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