Hello and welcome to Forever 35 a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Schaffreier.

And I'm Elise Hugh and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums and other things.

And other things like packing for a trip.

Yes, welcome back.

Dory was traveling last week with her son and you went to the East Coast. Here I am

waving my hand because I don't know the geography. Because it's over there.

Yeah. So my initial goal per the Elise-Hue

packing challenge was to pack Henry and Henry and my things in one bag and then

we would each have like a backpack. But that was just not happening. Well, we

should mention a hurricane turned tropical storm moved into the East Coast. Yes, a hurricane turned tropical storm moved in to the East Coast.

Yes, a hurricane turned tropical storm moved in and Henry is like very attuned to weather and so was like I must bring my rain boots I must bring my rain jacket.

I also had to then bring a rain jacket like there was just

sort of like extra stuff he also he requires us to travel with his clock

clock. We have to travel with his clock. We have to travel with his clock too.

Yeah, his clock as well.

I have to travel with my teddy bear so you know there's just like a few

things that need to go into bags that are bulky. They take up space. But I was like, you know what, maybe my goal will be to not have to push two suitcases through the report. So I decided to do one of the Away bigger carry-on suitcases and one Calpack Luca Duffel, the regular size, not the large size.

And I did pretty well. I used packing cubes.

I also knew that we would be able to do laundry. We were going to spend a couple

nights at my sister's place in the Berkshires and then the rest of the time

of my parents both of which have laundry so I was like okay I really I don't need to

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