Without fail I go through a sort of manic preparation before embarking on a major trip. Before Studly and I went to Scotland two summers ago I had six months to scurry around shopping for just the right accoutrement (Studly uses the term “crap”) for our journey.
With a trip to Guatemala looming in early April I have less than two months to get my accoutrement together. It’s not that I don’t have enough clothes already, it’s that I don’t have the RIGHT clothes. I can hardly be expected to wear my normal t-shirts and jeans when traveling to a foreign country.
Travel smith.com is getting my business this time around. I’ve ordered two items from their website:
and,
Both earned a respectable 5 star rating, and I hope they live up to their respective reputations. Since I have a wedding to attend in Guatemala, it’s important that I look good, but not too good. One wouldn’t want to outshine the bride, after all. So maybe I’ll bring my crepe-y, saggy arms along instead of a firmer, sexier pair.
After I wrote this I came upon a blogpost that my sister-in-law shared about how much we have to learn as a country about happiness and gratitude. http://adventuretrio.com/one-thing-we-learned-about-north-americans-from-central-americans/
I hope you’ll read it. It puts my mania into a different context. I have so much, yet think I need more. Sigh.
Peace, People.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
it’s the American way. I do the same, and then i suffer overwhelming guilt for having caved in to the wicked desires.
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Guys got it easy! 18 hours pre-flight- dump your clean clothes hamper into the suit case, zip it up, and catch some Zees. Unless your married- then instead of those Zees, you need to either look busy or pay someone to call you into the office to solve a major problem that has to be fixed before you go and nobody else can do it!
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That’s exactly how it works.
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