Travel Tips: How to Safely Pack Mezcal, Pottery for the Trip Home
It’s been some years since I wrote about how I pack mezcal bottles, pottery and other fragile artisan crafts to take back to the USA after my stay in Oaxaca. For the most part, I can claim 99.5% success that all will arrive undamaged. Only once, did a plate arrive broken! Basically, what I do […]
Travel Packing Tips 101: Using Cubes & Baskets
This afternoon I’m boarding an international flight for the Adriatic Coast of Europe, where I’ll be traveling with Hettie on a tour for two weeks — my first tour ever! (We shall see how it goes.) In my move toward minimalism, I’m attempting to pack lighter (for me) and that means taking one medium sized […]
Travel and Time, Time Travel and Packing for Oaxaca
This is my travel to Oaxaca day! It’s 6:45 a.m. in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and I have the luxury of an 11:15 a.m. flight from RDU to IAH, then a 5 hour layover until a 6 p.m. flight that will deposit me in my beloved Oaxaca at 8:22 p.m. tonight. During the layover, I have […]
Oaxaca Summer Packing List
Alert: Rainy Season! We’re getting lots of rain in Oaxaca now. Great for planting season but inconvenient for hot-footing it around town, unless you duck in for an afternoon mezcal, beer or coffee mocha 
Come prepared. A grueling travel day is coming to a close. As much as I plan ahead and start way […]