What do Travel Writers Always Carry When They’re On the Road?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.13.06 | 11:07 AM ET
For Jan Morris, it’s a pot of English bitter orange marmalade. Tim Cahill takes a world-band radio (“I may be safe in the bush, but I would like to know if there are riots, gunfire, etc. in the capital city where I’ll have to go to fly home”). Bill Bryson carries items he no longer wants, such as sweaters given to him by his in-laws (“I can discard them en route and lighten my load as I go”). A dozen other travel writers answered the question posed by John Flinn in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Jackie 06.25.06 | 1:50 PM ET
I buy a medium weight scarf the first day of my trip. They are usually inexpensive and easy to pack and are a reminder of my trip. Then I can use the scarf on my trip for any number of things: use it to sit on while enjoying a picnic, cover my shoulders in a church or dress up my casual travel clothes. I have used scarves to ward off rain, bugs and the cold. When I get home I wear the scarf and remember what a wonderful time I had on my trip.