50 litre backpack for Miss Deli to carry all that beach wear; two good value down sleeping bags that are left & right zippers so we can zip them together and have a double (to give me maximum leg room); ruck sack bags (cheap bags so we can check our sacks in with normal baggage and hopefully help protect them during all those air miles); some secret pockets (I could tell you but I'd have to kill you); plastic sporks (it would be a bit daft to carry cutlery all the way); a tiny compass; Rough Guide Mexico & LP California (...here we come...); LP's Latin American Spanish phrasebook...
And we took back Thomas Cooks Driving in California book because, frankly, it was terrible. My abiding memory was in the San Francisco section where the book listed a whopping three different accommodation options all in the €€€ bracket - yeah, thanks. Oh and there was the classic lines "if you are not driving then SF is great" and "don't try to park in downtown SF" - I mean WTF - the book is called DRIVING in Cali - and, FFS, for 38€ the book should maybe suggest where to park anywhere in SF, probably the prime destination for anyone on a driving tour of California. Suffice to say I won't be buying a Thomas Cook publication again. I found it particularly annoying that they even tried to make the graphic design and cover artwork look like the LP series. Don't be fooled!
Oh, and the other teeny tiny thing we bought this week. 34 flights. Wow. I have 2 bulging flight ticket wallets filled with 17 flights each. And our collective wallet is over six thousand euros lighter. What a feeling! Of extreme wallet pain! We took the plunge and booked all our North American flight dates and Easter Island and Auckland. Our Santiago-Auckland flight is on 4th November. This was when we wanted, which was lucky, because 2nd and 3rd Nov were already booked!
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