Traveling to a place where creature comforts are as common as snow and ice? Don't let "roughing it" ruin your warm-weather escape this month. If you're destined for a place where it's easier to buy a goat than a bottle of Purell, or where the locals think that "Samsonite" is the name of an American airline, find space next to your swimsuit for these essentials.
I. Bring to stay healthy:
- Bedbug traps, should you run into a small infestation and a host who is unwilling or unable to clear them out of your room, or move you elsewhere. Amazon carries a decent one.
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II. Bring to stay clean:
- Toilet paper: as much as you have room for. I will never forget finding only bright pink TP in Morocco that practically disintegrated as soon as I touched it.
III. Bring to stay comfortable:
- A small, battery-operated fan, both to serve its primary purpose of cooling you where there is no A/C, and to drown out street noise. Don't wait to buy a fan where you're going, since it will almost always come with a cord and you'll already be using what precious few socket(s) you have to charge your devices.
IV. Bring for a variety of uses:
- Ziploc and plastic bags for protecting your electronics and documents from the elements