Tag: Packing List View All Tags
Tags: Travel Health / Packing List / Travel Gear / → All Tags
Add Bedbug-Killing Spray To Your Packing List
If you're afraid of bedbugs biting during a hotel stay, go on the offensive against the blood-sucking critters. You can avoid places known for hosting the pests by running your hotel through the website www.bedbugregistry.com, or you can bring some reinforcements like Rest Easy, an all-natural spray that's supposed to keep bed bugs at bay.
There is reason for concern, as bedbug outbreaks are increasing at hotels, according to Crain's New York, which reported:
Last year the number of bed bug complaints from New Yorkers calling the city’s 311 hot line spiked 34% to 9,213 from the previous year. This year, the problem is not any better, according to companies that are called by apartment buildings and hotels to get rid of the pests.
Tags: Costa Rica Field Trip / Packing List / Suitcases / Packing / → All Tags
The Ultimate Packing List for Costa Rica
All this week, Lost Girl Amanda Pressner will be bringing us reports from her recent trip to Costa Rica with her entire family. Any questions about traveling to Costa Rica or family-oriented activities to do while you're there? Let us know.
When I returned from my yearling round-the-world adventure with The Lost Girls back in 2007, I swore that I’d retire my trusty blue Snowgum backpack and only travel with a rolling suitcase from now on. Fast forward two years to July 2009, and you’ll see me digging around my aunt’s basement in upstate New York, trying to find the only bag I really trust to get me and my three weeks worth of clothing—across rives, through jungles and overnight buses in Costa Rica.
The first time that I had to traipse through two feet of seawater to board a boat that took me across the Gulf of Papagayo from one destination to the next, I realized that it would have been near impossible to accomplish the task with a big suitcase on wheels. Not getting rid of Big Blue was the best travel decisions I ever made (that and running away from an insane cab driver in Vietnam, but that’s another story).
While living out of a backpack for 12 months straight got pretty old on my last big trip, it did teach me one important life lesson—how to pack effectively (if not exactly lightly). Some may look at the list below and think “holy crap, girl…that’s way too much stuff!” but I truly did utilize each and everything below at least once, and usually many times during my recent Costa Rica trip.
