Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Packin' it in

Friday we are leaving for Mexico.

Not your Cabo-san-pulco-juana. A little villiage in the middle of nowhere, where we are spending a week with a missionary group providing slave labor at an orpanage, pouring comcrete and building walls.

One peice of luggage not weighing more than 50 lbs. One carry-on. Need to bring bedding and water bottles. Doesn't leave a lot of room for anything but the necessities (Like toilet paper, which is NOT provided)

Showers are by bucket.

There isn't a whole lot of room for luxuries. My question to you is: given a limited amount of space and weight, and disallowing expensive electronic devices like mp3 plaayers, what would you just not live without? Limit yourself to a couple of items.

I just got a water spray bottle with a built-in fan, and a wind up flashlight that doesn't require batteries.

2 comments:

Stacy The Peanut Queen said...

TP is a DEFINITE! Soap....shampoo...maybe some baby wipes (for those times when there's not enough water in the bucket).

Tough call!

Al said...

Denny: Every once in a while this little voice comes on in the back of my head and says "What the hell have you gotten yourself into?"

Stacy: Sanitary hand cleaner. That's all I'm sayin'