Like Home

Like Home

Like a lot of people in my field, I am a frequent traveler. I have learned how to cope with long security lines, over-priced airport food and the bans on liquids. I can easily turn any airport lounge, flight, or hotel room into a mobile office and get donw to work. But until recently I had a hard time turning it into a mobile home--at least until I started packing more shower accessories.

Home is a lot of things and for the business traveler it's a point of sanity. Spending so much time on the road, away from family and friends, can be emotionally draining. Hotels can't really be a home, but we all find ways to do little things to spruce them up. We travel with photos and hang them up. We throw out air freshners we hate. Or, if you're me, you travel with some great shower accessories.

For example, my roommates and I bought some suction frogs for our shower when we moved into our new place. It was a little playful thing, but it's always fun to hop into the shower and have something distracting to look at, especially on the road. So I buy silly shower accessories with me on trips and, for a moment, it's like I am back home.

Maybe it's because once of the first things I do when I get into a hotel is clean off the grime of the airplane. Maybe it's because the shower is such a blank slate that while we're in there it's easy to imagine we're going to step out into our own bedrooms. The right shower accessories help with this illusion.

So what shower accessories do I recommend? Well, obviously bring your favorite soaps, shampoos, and conditioners, if you can. I recommend buying some travel liquid bottles and filling them up before hand. I recommend a good candle and magazine if you want to take a bath and forget about all the work and travel for a moment.

But those are all basic shower accessories. If you're a bath taker, I really, really recommend a bath pillow. I thought they were only for the elderly, but then I found myself falling asleep in the bath constantly. A good bath pillow was a lifesaver.

A waterproof radio or mp3-player compatible stereo are essential shower accessories. Being able to listen to the music you like, to belt out your favorite tunes while washing off the day can really make you feel like you're at home. I also encourage at least one silly item. A both toys are shower accessories that are no longer just for kids! Traveling and bathing with a silly item will do wonders for your ability to relax from them day and adjust quickly to yet another hotel.

All of us have our own method for coping with the rigors of the business travel schedule. And all are important. But I often find the importance of shower accessories for creating a sense of home being overlooked so please, before you next trip, consider a rubber ducky.

Zoe Holmes is a New York-based Midwesterner who loves indulging the kid inside of herself. But for more mature shower accessories, she always knows where to turn.

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