Things I will take with me to South America

• My Stainless-Steel Rack-and-Pinion Citrus Juicer. (I drink the juice of 1/2 a lemon in a quart of water every day. Without this, I am nothing)
• Mojo Cat. (claro)
• My Flame-colored, Cast-iron Le Creuset Cookware and Poterie. (I don't cook. But if I ever do, I want my pots and pans to be FLAME colored.)
• My Shrine to the Virgin of Guadaloupe. (Nuestra Senora, pray for us.)
• My bilingual copy of Neruda's Cien sonetos de amor
• Laptop (fully loaded)
• Camera (also loaded)
• Clothes, Shoes, Make-up, accessories. (within reason)
• A Handful of Favorite books in English (Another copy of The English Patient because I keep giving them away, The Phantom Tollbooth, Wuthering Heights, some short stories, some Chaucer, monographs by photographers Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, William Eggleston Boris Mikhailov.)

I will refer to this list again in a few months when I'm trying to hire Sherpas to haul my crap for me. Or pricing out freight containers. Or calling the airlines for baggage size and weight limits.