We had a bit of an adventure getting back home after a week in Portland, Oregon.
But before I tell that tale of the less-than-friendly skies, let me offer a bit of simple advice.
Please listen carefully.
Do not, under any circumstances, allow a small bottle of Robitusson Cough & Chest medication to explode in your suitcase.
This stuff is a thick, sticky, bright red liquid, the color serving no apparant purpose except to warn you of it’s hidden dangers. Be forwarned. I can now say from experience that it sticks to everything with the same intensity, whether your throat and other internals, or the valued “stuff” placed in your suitcase for safekeeping.
When I first opened my suitcase after getting home and saw the first blotches of red, I initially feared the $65 bottle of Oregon wine, carefully wrapped and place in the suitcase, had leaked. Nope, the wine survived intact.
It took a few seconds staring at the sticky mess to realize that a Robitusson explosion was the source of the damage.
I’m still assessing the items exposed to the Robitusson explosion. It may have killed the suitcase itself. The liner does not apear to be removeable, and that red goo has fierce holding power. I’ll trying hosing the suitcsase out and drying it in the sun, but I’m afraid it might be a goner.
I’ll also have yet to assess how the stains on a wool sweater I splurged on earlier in the year, and a nice long-sleeve wool-blend shirt that I wear during visits to cold weather. Perhaps I can eventually claim that it is just a tie-dye in process?
My fault, although I can plead diminished capacity due to the cold I had been battling for several days, hence the Robitusson.
But, really, my fault for not wrapping it tightly in a leak-proof bag.
And on the bright side, no family heirlooms were lost, no people, cats, or dogs were injured. And we managed to get home, although about 15 hours, and one unplanned hotel night, later than scheduled.
And so it goes on this travel recovery day.
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Take a good rest and nice walk on the beach.
Everything replaceable and you and Meda are well.
I think we all have similar experience. My bottle of special sesame oil leaked. I could smell my suitcase
From afar …..
Oh my goodness! There are certain substances that behave that way. I drink beet juice and no matter how careful I am it never fails to contaminate my entire kitchen with it’s purply, antioxidant goodness. I always say beet juice is killer — it’s like cleaning up blood at a crime scene.
Glad you’re home safely and hope you are feeling better.
mate, pre-wrapping items like that is something that should not be sneezed at, you will end up coughing up the expenses to settle and smooth out the irritation that it caused 🙂 ……
I had that happen with a bottle of wine.
I had that happen with a bottle of nail polish. There’s a reason why movie stars carry makeup in a separate case.
Yikes, in the future, buy the ones that are gel capsules.
I have to jump in here. Back in the early 80s, i visted my NM-living sister and we shopped in Juarez. It was 2 days after we left a Xmas 0recordbreaking storm in CO. Only to awaken to a recordbreaking snowstorm in Juarez. We’d shopped already so we left back to Silver City. I go to unpack my Mexican treasures and xmas gifts only to find the vanilla had exploded on my new white ski jacket, we assumed from freezing.
From then on, liquids in my suitcase are ziplocked. Lol