recent return

I just returned from a 3 week excursion to Thailand last month, with a lot of new experiences to share.

The best part about the trip was the weather. One bag travel is sooo much easier when you can pack smaller less bulky items.

Some of my lessons learned on this trip:

1. The Diva cup is a life saver. I was thinking of writing a full review of this product at some point, but for your own curiosity I am only going to link to the product here. You can read more about it until I get over my initial embarrassment.

2. I bought some shampoo upon arrival instead of lugging a bunch of smaller 3-1-1 bottles with me on the plane. This was smart.

3. Biggest lesson learned: If you don't bring a product - make sure they have it there upon arrival!!! Thailand is notorious for skin whitening lotions!!!! They have NO affordable normal lotion available. All of the supermarkets sell skin whitening lotion. Bizarre? Maybe if you're not Thai. Also, their toothpaste is different. Let me just say - it tastes salty. I was ecstatic to find a bottle of "western" style toothpaste.

4. I had to do laundry 3 times while there.

Washing clothing in the sink turned out to be futile. I was unable to dry my clothing in 100% humidity. A wet shirt hanging on a clothesline will still be a wet shirt hanging on the clothesline - 2 days later!!! But of course this doesn't matter, because with humidity like this, whatever you put on (even if already "dry") will be already wet feeling.