I back up needed information like yours for your talk and ticket information online, but I'm pretty paranoid.
Plastic bags in case you need to ice some body part at the hotel?
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I back up needed information like yours for your talk and ticket information online, but I'm pretty paranoid.
Plastic bags in case you need to ice some body part at the hotel?
Backing up online is a good idea. I emailed the slides for the talk to my advisor on Monday, and haven't changed much since then (just one minor change), so that's saved in my sent mail folder on gmail. Airplane information is also saved in gmail and on my blackberry.
Blackberry charger! And a few plastic bags, too. And makeup.
Decent coffee?
I don't drink coffee.
sunblock?
For Kentucky? In March?
I always bring sunblock. I'm pale like that.
I'm olive-skinned and usually have low Vitamin D in the winter. I don't tend to sunblock until at least June or so.
So, this was weird. Apparently I'm going to Italy.
We were tossing around ideas for my dad's birthday (he's 70 this year) and right in the middle of that I spotted some seriously cheap fares to Italy. And suddenly an idea my sister and I had tossed around yonks ago in a sort of yeah, someday way was resurrected.
He spent several years there in the Navy, still speaks Italian (kind of), met my mom there when she was spending her grad school tuition futzing around Europe with her friends, etc. So, yeah, it was kind of a significant place to him. And they never made it back there.
[It wasn't a huge tragic story - we did make it to other parts of Europe on a couple of occasions so it's not like they couldn't have. But still. I know it would mean a huge amount to him to get to see the place once more and remember and share some of his history.
So I bought the damn tickets and the three of us are going in May. Only for a few days - in theory, she's contributing but reality is that is basically going to be on my dime so I really had to be firm with myself about what was going to be manageable.
Anyway, we're flying into Pisa, will go from there maybe to Florence for a day, then a couple of days in Naples where he lived and then back to Pisa to head back. Phew.
Any advice, suggestions, warnings? I'll take anything you got.
Well. I just hope it all goes smoothly. -- I mean the travel, I am sure your talk will. (that was for hil)
DH did his first travel with new co. The person who booked things - not a travel agent. Booked everything one way. Over night 2 stops to Ohio. He comes back Friday -- but the second flight , it looks like he will be bumped. 8pm at DFW. and it was sort of booked that way. Now there are lots of flights from DFW to this area, but this didn't have to happen
Since the office in Columbus,OH is where a number of his people work ... he needs to find the best way.
and yay brenda!