OK, I return in less than two weeks! Here is my official packing list:
-- 12 new t-shirts (six white, six black)
-- 3 button-down shirts
-- 3 collared shirts
-- 3 bathing suits, 3 walking shorts
-- underwear/socks
-- sandals n tennis shoes
-- two hats (often lose one and my head is too big for Negril-store hats!)
-- two watches (one is a backup)
-- Electronics -- cell with charger, negril cell with charger, laptap, camera
-- three high-quality pool rafts (I like the good kind, and I like to set up in a few places)
-- lanyards for keys (Brassi's idea, I like it)
-- 10 reading glasses (I lose them, and those I don't I give away)
-- Jackie Collins novel (never EVER travel without one)
-- sundry items including sunblock and several chapsticks
-- biz cards (I once ran into a music-industry colleague at a snorkel shack, it's a small world after all)
travel documents including passport and bank/credit cards
-- zip-lock baggies, tin foil, paper plates
-- MONEY -- small stack of USD 100s and 50s, medium stack of 20s and 10s and big stack of 5s and 1s ....
-- 33 lighters (two per day, plus one extra per day for the two I always lose)
-- 5 rolling papers and one scissors for the cab ride from Montego Bay (lol)
-- RIU towel cards (just kiddin')