I’ll Adapt
I’m going to South Africa tomorrow. So I am packing today.
I’m taking my PDA and since I’m going to be gone for 8 days, I’m bringing along its AC adapter to charge it. I’m also taking a company laptop and its adapter. Since its battery lasts only about two hours, and the flight is 18 hours, I’ll bring my little MP3 player to listen to music. But that’s 18 hours each way so its adapter is coming too. All these adapters have bulky “bricks” in the middle of their cords.
I’m hoping to go on safari over the weekend so I’m taking my camera. It takes rechargeable batteries, so you know what that means.
I shave with a rechargeable electric razor and beard trimmer: they are coming too. After all, we are talking 8 days here.
The Republic of South Africa, is 220 volts and only some of these things cannot deal with that, so I have to bring my AC converter and plug adapters. They have a very unusual outlet over there.
But I will draw the line somewhere: I’m not taking my cell phone (it doesn’t work over there), electric toothbrush, and I’ll towel dry my hair.