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coastal maine: the carry-on, or, heck, just wear everything and be done with it 2008-06-07 - 9:40 a.m. Yeah, I tend to wear a lot, but this one's ridiculous. I don't see much choice though: Every boat tour comes complete with its printed harangue to "dress in layers" and to be prepared for rain, hypothermia, and enthusiastically crapping puffins. (I may have invented the "enthusiastically crapping puffins" part. Then, again, if you substitute the word "gulls" in that sentence...) In any case, here's what I'm wearing: broad-brimmed floppy hat with cord to keep it from blowing away on the very first tour two scarves -- one long, one more of a bandanna to wet and cool the neck rain jacket Tommy Bahama for Women linen pants and matching linen jacket colorful shirt raffia cinch belt puffy waterproof vest with pockets -- the most problematical item, my outfit would actually look cute if not for this one sport bra, underwear, socks rubber-soled walking shoes reading glasses on a string polarized sunglasses on a string water resistant alarm clock style watch wedding ring, cognac tourmaline ring, carnelian ring, Smoky Quartz ring Sterling silver and citrine bracelet I have a grocery pack with a sack breakfast in it -- Vienna Sausage for him, chicken salad and crackers for me. Also 2 small boxes of raisins. There won't be any time to eat between connections, and there won't be any low carb food (or any meals served at all) on these flights, so what do you do? DH will also be carrying beef jerky but I've discovered that dried food no longer agrees with my digestive system, so I'll have to rely on the snack basket for lunch. And so to the carry-on: sterling silver and citrine necklace sterling silver heavy necklace with large feather pendant a selection of inexpensive earrings and earring backs a complete change of clothes -- slacks, shirt, socks, undies dental device an extra water-resistant watch a bag of coins for greedy toll booths and laundry machines an unfortunately large 8 by 11 inch envelope from AAA full of maps, directions, phone #s, pages torn or copied from guidebooks, bird checklist, and specific itinerary information the "sweet pera" camera bag, which will have to double as a purse the all-important binoculars Kaufmann's Guide to the Birds of North America -- because when you can carry only one guide, it will have to be the smallest one camera and 8 Duracell "Ultra" AA batteries in waterproof padded fanny pack cell phone and charger small flashlight Canon Elph back-up camera, case, and charger a scratch pad and 5 pens comb and a portable fold-up brush thingy from Sephora 2 toothbrushes aspirin vitamins solid deodorant 2 solid sunscreen sticks solid foundation make-up compact powder compact concealer stick 2 lipsticks some hair ties extra saccharine packets a small flat "book" of eye, lip, and cheek colors 4 paperbacks money belt wallet/money clip a ridiculous orange plastic rain poncho which I won't need because I'm bringing a raincoat but you sort of have to humor these tour leaders "da baggie" which holds the following: insect repellent toothpaste conditioner a bit of Dermablend concealer that's still hanging around -- good if nothing else for protecting the area around the eyes from the sun She-Lac -- I've mentioned this product before, it keeps the lipstick on, which is good for keeping lips from being sunburned, and no don't tell me about your 18 hour lipstick, I've tried them all Sally Hansen 10-Day Chip Resistant nail polish -- a big ha-ha to their "Chip Resistant," but I have enough to touch up every day, and it does work on my tootsies 3 small tubes of various Olay Regenerist moisturizers that I might as well use up Rosebud -- a new fresh tin since I've lost the previous one a tiny jar of liquid make-up a tiny jar of Kiehl's daytime moisturizer with sunscreen, the one containing meroxyl, it's not in the original container and I'm too lazy to look up the product name at the moment, but you get the idea a tiny end of the tube of hydrocortisone -- in case of bug bites a tiny plastic bottle of Sweet Breath -- a blue minty one instead of a cinnamon red minty one, whatever, it's a breath freshener a small first aid kit containing: allergy medicine motion sickness medicine anti-itch/sleep medicine from the Benadryl line of things a few Tums band-aids small emery boards Q-tips flossers I also made up a small liquids baggie for DH. Whew. I'm now officially exhausted, and the trip hasn't yet begun. A tiny moment of panic when I thought the bird-sitter had the wrong dates, but it's all fixed now. My final FC upgrade has come through. But our times have been jiggered with a little. Not much time at all to run through the hallucinogenic hall of LSD to catch our puddle jumper at DTW. later DH had space and weight left in his bag, so I put my vest and rain jacket in his luggage. Two fewer items I have to wear. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford