Packing for the Frequent Traveler
I am sitting in a hotel room in Taipei nursing a sore throat.
The one thing I didn’t bring along was salt to gargle the throat with. Otherwise, I have everything else. Well, almost everything else.
For traveling, I have a toiletries bag that hold:
- Dayquil (in capsule form)
- Nyquil (in capsule form)
- Imodium
- Claritin
- Anti-acid
- Band-aid
- Tylenol
- Bengay
- Calcium supplement
- Airborne
- Sewing kit for those deep cuts…
Okay, that last one was a joke.
I do have a sewing kit though, along with nail clippers (they do allow you to take those on planes), electric shaver, toothbrush, hair gel, toothpaste and comb.
The toiletries bag gets emptied only when I am at the hotel. Otherwise, everything stays together. The last thing I want to do in the frenzy of last minute packing is to put together the toiletries bag. The only thing I do on a semi-regular basis is to make sure that there is enough of the expendable items.
I have also several items which I’ve not been able to keep together:
- Alarm clock
- AC plugs for different countries
- Ipod Shuffle + headphones
- Ipod Shuffle sync cable
- Spare headphones for running with Ipod
- LAN cable
- AC adaptor for devices that charge via a USB cable
- Spare glasses
The challenge is to have enough duplication so that you don’t have to raid your travel pack for stuff. That works fine for low cost items like medication. But it’ll be expensive to have a spare Ipod shuffle or even a pair of extra glasses (my last pair cost $500!).
