Packing

[dreamer_easy]

Clothes and shit: a doddle.
Medications: always stressful, but better organised than usual this year.
Books: A NIGHTMARE. Two books or three? How much can I really read on the plane? Should I take both fiction and non-fiction? Oliver Sacks or Bill Bryson? etc etc etc

Comments

[off_coloratura]

I have a similar problem.

I'm going to be in LA from beginning of January to the end of April.

WHAT YARN WILL I BRING?! How many projects can I finish? TEARING MY HAIR OUT.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

... I'd stick to the yarn if I were you.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

As much as you can, that's a long time.

How do you get around the scissors problem?

[kitzen-kat.livejournal.com]

I agree. The reading matter bit is hard.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. H.V Morton (author of In Search of Scotland, and In the steps of St Paul) always recommended travelling with lots of books. He felt it made hotel rooms bearable.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I know whereof you speak. Same dilemma when going on holiday. Generally don't get much reading done on the plane, but your mileage may vary.

How about audiobooks?

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

You choose two books that you haven't read that you also think someone that you are visiting will like. You read them on the trip there, and gift them when you're finished. Then you find a nice used bookstore and browse for a few hours/days (it IS vacation) and pick a few for the trip back that you think someone at home will also like; read them on the trip back and them gift them too!