Travel Towels

Yesterday Linda and I went downtown to Mountain Equipment Co-op to purchase travel towels to take on this trip. The guesthouse we will be using does not offer amenities like towels: it is not a hotel. The criteria for the towels were that they had to be light and dry quickly. Mountain Equipment Co-op has such towels, in fact they have two different kinds: a sports towel and a travel towel. After much consideration, we opted for the travel towels, although I think we might want to take a shamwow with us to us as a bathmat in the bathroom (if we get a room with a bathroom) and in the shower room (if we don’t get a room with a bathroom).

While in Mountain Equipment Co-op, and faced with their huge displays of attractive things to buy, we also purchased a medical kit consisting of sterile syringes, suture needles and sutures, IV canula etc. We purchased one each. Then after a very brief consideration we also purchased a third in case of extreme emergency. If one of our trip-mates had a problem and needed one, we would not hesitate to donate one of our own kits, but that would leave us at risk should we need sterile medical equipment. I bought a little red first aid kit pack (empty – it is for making your own custom kit, which I will do. Mine will contain band-aids, bactine, ozonol or polysporin, alcohol pads, tweezers and rubber gloves. I think a tensor bandage would also be a good addition to the kit. Probably a few tylenols as well.)

Lastly, I bought a tube container of electrolyte replacement tablets in a multi-berry flavour. Linda bought the same tablets but in lemon-lime. Between the two of us we should be ok. We also have the Gatorade electrolyte replacement, so it means we each have about eighteen doses. If we need that much, we are in trouble.