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”

  2. i would go to australia or new zealand, because i’ve never been to the southern hemisphere. but i’d go by way of the bay area, so i could see my family.

    crossing fingers…

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  5. It doesn’t sound glamorous, but more than anything I’d like to head back to Germany to visit dear friends from when I lived there. For a brief post-college period I was visiting regularly but now that we have a house and a kid on the way we can’t afford it. I miss my friends, and their rapidly-growing children, and biking on beautiful bike paths on rolling hills, and good pretzels and pastry with poppy seeds, and being somewhere that feels like a home of sorts, even if it’s not my home at present.

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  8. I’ve traveled to Bolivia, Spain, and Turkey, among other places, but if I could travel anywhere at all right now, it would be to California to visit my husband who has just started a new job there while I begin a grad school program in Oregon. We would do the 20-mile ride up Mt. Hamilton to watch the condors fly around just above our heads at the Lick Observatory–only this time we would leave very early in the morning, to avoid almost becoming a condor snack by perishing of the afternoon heat one mile from the top. Though the flight would be short, it would be stressful because I’d be leaving my dogs behind. The travel kit would be a delightful comfort.

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  10. i have a long list of places on my life travel itinerary but here’s a few:
    – tango in argentina
    – volunteer in africa
    – see an opera in italy
    – visit relatives in vietnam

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  11. I have always wanted to go to Prague, and would like to travel across Europe from there. I grew up in England, but I want to bring my husband along on my European adventures this time.

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  13. I would go to Copenhagen, and I would magically have the equivalent of 10,000 dollars in my pocket, and I would then spend every last bloody cent of it on classic scandanvian design that I could lovingly stroke until the end of my days while exuding an aura of class.

    And all of it would match my new luggage tags.

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  16. There are so many places I would love to go – it’s hard to pick just one… but I think the top of the list would have to be Greece. I’ve always wanted to go there. I think it looks so beautiful and there is so much history

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  17. Fiji for sure…I think that travel kit will keep me good company on the 13 hour flight!

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  19. Hmm… anywhere… I think I would travel to Fiji or Greece… I can’t pick! Alright… Greece, but you are twisting my arm.

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  22. I’ve been feeling an urge lately to visit Macchu Picchu. After that, I’d take a boat trip down the Amazon into Brazil. Tropical diseases, I am so ready for you!

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  30. Oh, oh, pick me! Because I am in fact quitting my job, not to wait tables in Europe, but to travel around and have fabulous adventures in Europe. And I think these adventures would be 100% more fabulous if I had that eyeshade and neck pillow. Please and thank you!

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  33. Patagonia! Chile, Argetina, Bolivia, Peru would be an ideal trip (and a nice LONG trip)…

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  34. If I could go anywhere at all, it would be to Portugal for two weeks, then to Prague, then to Italy. Hey, you didn’t give me a time limit! :0)

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  35. This is SO great! If I could go anywhere…so hard to choose! I’d like to see it all. However, I am particularly inspired by checking out the ruins in Peru. So that!

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  36. I would take my orange-haired and freckled 11-year old daughter on a cycling trip to Ireland. We’d start with the Dingle peninsula…

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  37. I want to go to so many places! I think the top f my list, however has to be Italy. Tour the whole country, but especially stopping by Calabria where my ancestors are from.

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  39. I’ve been dreaming of Turkey for years now. East meets West. Hookahs and bellydancers and prayers and Cappadoccia and Turkish baths. Could I be exempt from teaching English in Vietnam? I already spent two years teaching English in China! Been there, done that. Just send me to Turkey, please!

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  44. If I win, I am going to Italy and taking the scented candle with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a cute kit!

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  45. Greece. (In my head that sounded like Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeece!) It’s calling to me and has been for months now. Time to make it a reality!

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  47. If I could go anywhere in the whole wide world, I would go to Japan. Love the food, love the people, love the culture, love the history! Too bad my bank account can’t swing it. Maybe one day…..

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  49. The luggage tags are fantastic.

    I would hop onto a plane to Australia in an instant. And then head to New Zealand from there. Or maybe Italy. Choices, choices…

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