However, there are occasions where things should be owned because they make said occasions better/easier/more efficient/whatever. This trip is such an occasion.
To document the things we've purchased for the trip's sake, I present thee with this fabulous photo.
What you see in this picture is: my travel purse slash day trip bag (can hold a water bottle and a kindle or tablet), a gopro Hero 5 for pictures and video in any environment, including underwater, a Nomadic backpack/carry on, a roll up, lightweight travel keyboard and adapter so I can type normally but only bring my small Google Nexus tablet (rather than a bulky/heavy laptop) and a bag of shampoo bars. Why shampoo bars? because they don't leak and are very easy to transport.
Also, there was this-- the world's best travel/adventure skirt:
this skirt and I are going to rock the South Pacific. It's got zippered pockets and button pockets sort of like cargo pants but it is cute!
So, that's about it. We didn't need a lot but we needed a few, very specific things. My next challenge is to now figure out how to get the SD cards to offload their pics and videos into my tablet...Every new thing arrives with it's own challenges, you know?
We will also bring a few gadgets we already owned -- like the mentioned Nexus tablet and likely my husband's old iPad. We're trying to figure out the wifi situation. We've got fantasy football teams to manage! In talking with the cruise line (where we will live the first 31 days), it seems that the biggest wifi package we can get will give us 20 minutes a day, if divided equally. Of course, it won't divide equally. Days at sea will take much more and active days off- boat will take much less...but no matter what, I bet this isn't quite enough, even with wanting to stay pretty unplugged. As my dad pointed out the other day, 20 minutes on a cruise ship in the middle of the sea could be the time it takes to load 4 pages. It ain't your momma's wifi.
Aside from all this, for me it's clothes and my kindle which will be chock full o' reads. Unfortunately, I read very fast and will undoubtedly need some wifi time to download more books.
The strangest thing for me is that I've pretty much decided to not bring my cell phone. My brain is trying to trick me into thinking this is a horrid idea and death will surely occur. But without wifi, it's just a camera and note taker, right? And I've already got those handled. Imagine the gloriousness of 50 days without a phone in hand!!!!!!! ohhhhh....ahhhhh....
