28 pair of underwear...check!

My first thought while planning what to bring for a month in India was to buy all outdoor nature clothing like you would see worn by Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider but being that I will have to hand wash everything for a month I am going with a more casual traveler look which includes what I already have in my closet, flip flops and a really cute new hat.  My only clothing purchase was 28 pair of $1.98 undies from Ross…. I couldn’t resist and darn it feels decadent. 

Most exciting purchase I made was at REI. I now own the most sophisticated water purification device around. This new devise is a light pen that you simply drop into your water bottle and within a minute it kills everything..like magic!! You know its good when all the checkout employees huddle around to admire your purchase with glassy far off dreamy looks in their eyes... This particular pleasure for me comes from being at the bottom of the technological food chain in my home for years, the recipient of the "hand me down" toys discarded and unwanted by the others, the IPad 1, Iphone 3G..etc. I have the power now!!!!!!!!

Learned something new....Did you know that major international airports have medical clinics where you can go and be treated by a doctor on staff. I was recently referred to SFO to receive all of my tropical desease vaccinations. So soaring through my blood stream today is a  bit of Hepititus A and B, Yellow fever, malaria, Tentnus, typoid, Japanese encephalitis, and to top it off polio. With all that I really felt pretty good after with only a mild fever and throbbing left arm from the tentnus. Hope it works.