"I’ve said before that the beautiful thing about travel is that it teaches people how to enjoy themselves in spite of a near-constant stream of small disappointments." - ISABEL SLONE
This photo is of me obsessively fanning myself with whatever paper I could find in my pack at DFW airport. I mean, it has been a warm winter at home and yet it's "winter" and places are running the heat.
Well, travel makes you sweaty. The fast walking and carrying heavy stuff and the crowds. I was wearing short sleeves but was still too hot.
Even though I felt really confident on this trip about packing I still have some things that I would do differently. I think I might bring a light-weight packable dress on every trip from now on.
I also wish I had brought some of our laundry detergent strips on this trip. They would be super easy to pack and light-weight. But I didn't. So we bought some laundry detergent pods in Madrid to take advantage of our washer there in our apartment. We packed some in a ziploc to take to our other rented apartments but there were still some left in the container. I tried to give them away to some women who I didn't speak the same language as and wildly they looked at me as if I might have two heads. My family was amused. I ended up leaving the rest of the container, open, so people could see what was inside on top of a trash can in a space with a lot of people coming and going. I hope someone took them home. Someone in my family told me that "no one is going to take them." I still hope they didn't go to waste.
At TSA, I surprisingly got my bag checked for a deck of cards that I brought that we haven't used yet. I don't regret bringing them but if we don't use them before we leave I think I'm gonna leave that game at our last apartment for other guests.
Hmmm, I don't remember seeing any little free libraries out of America. Does anyone know if other countries have them?
Okay, off to play spades with the fam.
Kelly
