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  • Minaal carry on review by an awesome dude

  • Mini honeymoon: cute and practical outfit

    Not as worried about sun today (traipsing about Carmel, Ca) but it is super muggy and atypically warm.

    So I went with my Columbia pants, because comfy, my Solomon sneaks (colorful and comfy) and the Jarritos sugar skull shirt from tarzhay (it’s been commented on all day…so fun) with a purple Columbia shirt on top when it gets cooler.

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    …and my day pack.

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    I can be seen from space!

  • Mini honeymoon: practical outfit (though still kinda cute) #2

    I am so pale I fluoresce. So I love the Columbia shirts that are quick dry and SPF50 or so. Columbia quick dry pants (though not convertible) and faithful Merrell ventilators that also accompanied me on part of the Appalachian trail.


    Figured it would do me well wandering around with craggy rocks and beaches with wimpy ankles.


    Collar was up to protect my neck, but I didn’t need to wear my Tilley hat today even though I had it in my daypack.

  • mini honeymoon:  Cute Outfit 1

    I packed in outfits instead of several matching/neutral multiples… We drove and it’s my honeymoon so I just having fun with it 🙂

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    And here’s the view from my cute outfit:

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    I bet there’s a great white shark out there!!

  • Travel souvenir necklace (and travel wishlist bracelet)

    Trying to go more minimal makes souvenirs a tough thing to reconcile. So I’m doing a charm for my bracelet to represent my trip. Some charms are literal, some are more representative. (Also, it would be a super bonus if I could find a charm that is from the place when I am there, but I’m not that high end of a person and jewelry stores tend to sneer at me in my hiking boots 😉 )

    This necklace holds my “traveled to” charms…

    From left to right:

    1. travel suitcase charm*
    2. Panama City (the dichroic looks like the embroidery the Kuna tribe does)
    3. Canada from when I went with my mom and my cousin to Victoria Island (I want to go more places in Canada, too)
    4. Passport charm* I try not to get dangly charms for my bracelet/necklace because I am fairly rough while traveling. So I don’t want to lose the item. But this one was a little too perfect to pass up.
    5. Blue bubbly bead for when we spread Mikey’s ashes in Hawaii as he requested
    6. Green snowflake for Green Bay, WI where I went once a year for the past 10 years… No I never expected that set of trips either 😉
    7. U.S. Flag bead- because U.S. Citizen, yo
    8. France charm from my study abroad
    9. The world*
    10. I need to get another Uruguay charm, the one I had didn’t stay where you could see the flag on the necklace. Irritating. But gotta wait on buying that one.

    *purely decorate-y pretty beads

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    My bracelet keeps my wishlist separate:

    1. Blue bubbly charm*
    2. Dragon for Bhutan
    3. Sea turtle for the Galapagos
    4. Dichroic bead for the northern lights
    5. Cruise ship for Alaskan cruise
    6. Blue bubbly bead*
    7. Several beads that look like my little alien who travels with me on my trips…

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    I have a lot of charms that I like here…some travel, some not.

  • Places I’ve visited…


    Create Your Own Visited States Map


    Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

  • Packing constants

    Aeronaut 30 (dyneema with ultraviolet lining): this is built to fit the specs of those cheapo bastard airlines in Europe. I may or may not use them especially since trains are nifty, but carrying less stuff is never a bad idea. I have a terrible tendency to shed things on the road that irritate me (such as umbrellas or the like) by giving them to street buskers or homeless folks so I’m more judicious now about what I take to begin with, conversely, I’m particular about what I wear so I can’t just replace my wardrobe on the road. Now I have a pretty good set of basics that don’t much leave the suitcase; they are easily washed, comfy and very neutral for mixing and matching.

    Knitting bag and Travel Tray: I generally have a newer project that I just cast on that is smaller (I really should learn to knit socks soon, they are so nice and portable) as well as my knit kit. The travel tray I leave full of stuff I’m going to want to use in the plane. iPhone cable, iPhone battery, earphones, lip balm, travel alien, etc. I tend to drop things, because clumsy, and this makes it easy to pull out of my bag and keep corralled on the tray or the seat. I use it in the hotel as well as my bedside bag for my necklace or bracelet while I sleep. Very handy.
    When empty it squooshes down flat to take up very little space.

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    robe/kimono/drape-y black sweater: I can wear something like this over jeans, my jammies dress, as a robe sort of thing, as well as another layer

    Black jammies dress:     pretty much if I see a packing list that shows an outfit with shorts and heels, I click away from it. However, I will wear jammies out and about. The thing is my jammies don’t look like jammies much…


    Shoes: I wear

    Rockport sandals:  happily I found a pair of sandals that are tidy looking AND are comfy.

  • Panama City, Panama – Saturday 4/11

  • Panama City, Panama 2015

    Photos of my trip to Panama!
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  • Alien – Panama