Packing For Mexico, Or The Eight and a Half Ounce Library

Parrots at a coffee plantation, last year.

My feet go on vacation every time I do!  It's amazing.

 Okay, we are leaving for Mexico on Friday, and I really need to get packing.  One of my goals is to get there and stay there for a week with ONLY carry-on baggage.  Ed can easily do this because his basic packing job is three swim suits, some flip flops, a shirt or two, and some cigars.  Oh, and a toothbrush.  He even lets me have some of his suitcase room sometimes.

Why, with all my travels around the globe, haven't I gotten the packing thing down well yet?  We even have a washer and dryer in our rooms in Mexico!  I don't NEED all that stuff.

In the interest of Packing Lite and not being charged $25 each way to check a bag, I decided to do something I have been wanting to do for awhile...and those of you reading this who wonder why I would spend $139 to save $50 on checked baggage...well, you just don't see the big picture.

I bought myself a Kindle.  It came yesterday, and I must say, I am already fascinatingly in love with it.  Last time we were in Mexico, I talked with a lady who used one daily to read whatever novel she was reading.  I tried it...and I loved it!  Alison has a version of the Kindle, too, and loves hers, especially for traveling, something she is very accomplished in.

Just beginning The Woman In White, by Wilkie Collins...
and that money in the corner is the money I saved on not having to check baggage... :)

For my Kindle, I have downloaded about a dozen free books so far, including a version of the Bible.  Last trip to Mexico, for two weeks, we each took about 5 books, and ran out of reading material before we returned home.  Not this time, and for only 8.5 or so ounces!

If I don't post a blog before then, I will update you on our Mexico trip after we return on March 4.  It is snowing like crazy here today, and I have a cold (naturally!!), so Mexico is looking better by the minute.

Get some reading done while I am gone...I plan to.