Might need more t-shirts

Just checked the 10 day forecast for Bangkok and the lowest low for the period is 75F. hmmm...

What am I forgeting?

Ok, didn't do my practice pack this weekend. Instead went on my last two mt. bike rides for what will certainly be several weeks. (I am hoping to get a little mt. biking in on the "vacation" part of my trip though in the northern Thailand hills.) But I did finalize my list tonight while watching the World Series. (poor rockies...) Anyway, I really want to pack light, but I already feel like I am over packing AND forgetting a million things. Help me out. Here is my list so far...

• Clothes
• 4 pairs socks
• 4 pairs underwear
• 1 pair jeans
• 1 pair zip-away pants/shorts
• 1 pair slacks
• 3 t-shirts
• 2 collared shirts
• 1 long-sleeved overshirt/sweatshirt
• Windbreaker
• Tevas
• Tennis shoes
• Swim shorts
• Exercise shorts
• 2 pair of hiking shorts
• Visor
• Passport
• Wallet
• Sunglasses
• Document wallet?
• Watch
• Camera (plus spare battery, USB cable)
• Laptop (plus power cord)
• Universal power adaptor
• Skype headphones and webcam
• glasses
• Ipod(s) (plus headphones, USB cable)
• GPS
• Meds (sleeping pills for flight, melatonin for jetlag)
• Vitamins (multis, emergen-C)
  
• Books
• Bangkok tattoo (fiction)
• Lonely Planet Thailand (2007)
• Time out Bangkok (guidebook)
• Daypack
• Razor
• Toiletries (toothbrush, paste, earplugs, deodorant, etc)

What else???

Not Much Baht

The countdown continues. Realized today that I will only be at work for 4 more weeks this year. That's somewhat comforting. Continuing to make lists, checking them twice, etc this weekend. Might even pull a Mom and do a "practice pack" before I go since I want to travel as light as possible since I expect to backpack around some.

Continuing to monitor the Thai baht vs US dollar as the dollar drops and drops. Not a trivial matter as my procedure is quoted in baht and I won't pay until I get there. Don't know too much about macroeconomics, but I'm sure this is Bush's fault somehow.

ps. I changed the settings so anyone can comment without registering, in case anyone is so inclined...

3 weeks out

I fly out in 3 weeks from today. So ready and so unprepared at the same time. I think that I do have the big things covered (passport, check; visa, check; plane tix, check...) but a million little things still to coordinate. That's the physical. Similar story on the mental side. Have been waiting, thinking, planning to fix my teeth for at least 10 years. Very actively for 3. So I'm definitely ready to do it. And I'm sooo burnt out from work right now that the idea of sitting in a dental chair in a foreign country for hours at a time actually sounds appealing. Sad but true. But I also know that I not at all mental prepared for the whole experience. I've been "getting ready for the trip" by taking care of the physical details, but really haven't thought too much about it a deeper level. I'm sure I'll have plenty of time on the 18 hour plane ride over to get as deep as I'd like...