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February 20, 2005

How to Pack for Geneva and Mumbai in the Same Suitcase

Dizzy sleeps on my suit bag

It's just before 3pm Boston time, and I'm off to the airport in less than two hours. My suit bag is sprawled across the bed right now, with layers of clothes on one side of it, and our cat Dizzy fast asleep on the other side of it. Meanwhile, our other cat Winston has decided to sleep on top of my winter coat, which I had folded up in anticipation of seeing if I could fit it into the bag as well. Both of the cats will soon have a rude awakening if I'm ever going to figure it out.

Packing for this trip has been more stressful than other business trips, since I will experience two temperature extremes on this trip: cold, occasionally wet Geneva and Paris, and hot, steamy India. Additionally, the dress code for India is somewhat more casual than the dress code for Geneva, leaving me with another layer of fashion algorithms to compute while packing. So unless I want to pack two separate suitcase for this trip (which I refuse on principal), I'm compromising and packing a lot of dress shirts and ties, leaving behind the suits I'd typically bring to a United Nations meeting and the lightest clothes I'd usually bring to an India meeting. The result, of course, may run counter to the fashion sense of everyone I meet on this trip, but at least I can still fit it all in one giant suit bag.

So if all goes well, I'll get everything packed (except the cats, who will have to find other places to sleep), catch my flights to Paris and Geneva, and check into the Hotel Bernina before 12pm tomorrow. This should allow me to arrive at the WSIS Prepcom meeting just in time for tomorrow's afternoon sessions. I just hope I manage to get some sleep on the plane; otherwise I will be a zombie tomorrow... -andy

Posted by acarvin at February 20, 2005 2:55 PM

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