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I am heading off to South East Asia on Friday afternoon. I get there late Saturday night. In the meantime I’ve been moderately successful in checking things off my list.

One of my big tasks was assembling my first aid kit. It’s annoying that some stuff only seems to be available in a first aid kit – like antiseptic wipes. I used a shiny black smashbox makeup bag for my kit. It looks hot.

On the topic of health, at my mother’s insistence I got tetanus and hepatitus A shots. The doctor also asked me if I wanted Typhoid vaccine and Anti-Malarial precription and to check the CDC. Turns out I do.  The doc prescribed me Malarone with insurance it was $150 for 24 pills. The typhoid vaccinne, which is 4 pills you take every other day, was $60 without insurance. I’m glad I’ve got some HSA/HRA action this year. I wonder if my anti-malarial is going to give me hallucinations!

Now I am thinking of packing. The problem is that I needed to do laundry first and our dryer broke on saturday.  We got a new one last night, so today I will be laundering and packing.

The big thing I have left to do is get/take passport photos for visas.

On a related note, a Bangkok Air flight skidded and crashed on the runway at the Koh Samui airport. Guess what airline I’m taking to Samui in a couple of weeks? At least our plane isn’t a prop jet.