small hard things

 

"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