Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, I'm Alexa and I'm Rory, and together we are the Romies. We are married To each other.

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Right.

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We are a touring musical duo.

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And our music has taken us to all kinds of places all around the world and keeps us always on the go.

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So we hope you enjoy our stories and adventures while running around working to keep all your plates spinning.

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And we hope to facilitate your busy lifestyle and feed your inner travel bug. Welcome back to the Romy's Podcast. I'm Alexa.

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Of course I'm Rory, and today we are sharing our must-have items for a travel wellness kit all of the essentials to help you feel great while exploring.

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If you guys listened to our episodes with Brooke Shuneman of Her Packing List or those of you ladies who have taken the course, brooke talks about different little kits that you might take with you on the road. That's also kind of what we're talking about. Here is your kit for wellness, and we're going to share what ours is. We talked a lot about healthy habits in our previous episode, so we're just building on that and we pretty much bring things to support all of those things that we just talked about in the previous episode, right? So we are going to maybe share some brands or kind of how we practically implement some of those things.

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Whether it's immune boosters, self-care items or sleep savers Sleep saver Looking forward to that one. These are our go-to travel wellness must-haves.

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I could use some sleep right now, but you guys are awake because you're listening to us and we're keeping you awake.

Speaker 1: 1:42

Yeah, that's right See our energy is contagious. Wideness, awakeness.

Speaker 2: 1:48

All right. So our travel kit we talked about hydration in the previous episode. We're going to kind of combine hydration essentials with some self-care musts, because, in my opinion, things that are going to make me feel like I'm doing self-care are also things that are going to hydrate me, because hydration affects your skin, your eyes, your brain, everything your energy. It's everything. So I bring I have a collapsible water bottle.

Speaker 1: 2:17

That's funny. You said your brain and you said I bring up, said my brain, and I have a collapsible brain.

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That's where I was.

Speaker 1: 2:25

That's what my brain heard. All of that.

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Right, right. You probably perceive it that way.

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Sometimes it feels collapsible.

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All right. Well, my brain is just fine right now and it's cold but collapsible water bottle. And then I have my clean canteen thermos and we have an affiliate link with Clean Canteen, so we'll include that in the show notes. You can help support the show and buy your Clean Canteen through us through our link you don't really buy it through us.

Speaker 1: 2:50

Clean Canteen, clean Canteen, clean Canteen. Try and say it 10 times fast. Clean Canteen, clean Canteen.

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Clean Canteen Clean Canteen Clean Canteen Clean Canteen Clean. Canteen we also bring, like our electrolyte packets. So again we've mentioned eBoost and we love the no sugar.

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Emergency.

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These I have them in my hand the immune support. They're just, they go in water. But what's awesome is these immune crystals that emergency has that you don't even need water and they're like Pop Rocks.

Speaker 1: 3:21

Listen. Yeah, that's kind of weird. She's like totally shoving the microphone in her mouth. You can hear the snap and crackle and pop of the immune crystals no danger at all, there's not, they're really good.

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If you like pop rocks when you're a kid, of course I love them. You have to be probably older than 30 to know about pop try to not do it when you're talking on a microphone and trying to throw your throat back.

Speaker 1: 3:47

Throw your throat back, throw your head back, yeah, and open your throat. So I hear it. I know they can hear it. Okay, yeah, nice, that's awesome. So that's eBoost.

Speaker 2: 3:59

Actually that's emergency crystals.

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That's what I said. That's emergency crystals. There's herbal teas, coconut oil can be a moisturizer. So that's what I said. That's emergency crystals. There's herbal teas, coconut oil can be a moisturizer, so that's, and, of course, multiple handy thing to carry yeah, because coconut oil can smooth your hair.

Speaker 2: 4:12

It's an eye makeup remover and even my cats like it is a little treat when they travel with us. So it's an all-purpose or. I'll take coconut oil and or an all-purpose balm, because a lot of bombs you can also use on your hair and skin and your lips. Balm, yes, yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:28

Face mist, face mist. We've really enjoyed face mist on long drives in the car or on airplanes, when you get all dry and everything Psst, psst. A little face mist there I use it all the time. A little travel size mistress Mm-hmm. And I found.

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I finally found a little mist bottle and it has like the perfect spray.

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Yeah.

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So now I just like refill that one. Yeah, me too. Yep Love that, so we might bring an additional little moisturizer.

Speaker 1: 4:55

Oh, and what about a tea? What about, like a Sandia Peak tea? Ooh.

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See, you don't want me to mention it, do you? I do want you to mention it. Okay then. So Vigabond Teas, vigabond Teas link in the show notes. Yep, we have a Sandia Peak Tea that is a delicious watermelon, hibiscus, and it has all of these herbs that formulate your, that help support your adrenals.

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Yes and help with stress. Yes. And the effects? Yes, the effects of stress on your boo day.

Speaker 2: 5:23

Yep, yep. All right, roy, let's talk healthy snacks. That's another thing that we bring, and so usually the night before or the morning of, I try to get all of our fresh fruit and veggies from the fridge and into a travel-friendly format. So I might have gone grocery shopping and realized, oh, we're going out of town this weekend.

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Yeah, that's more than once happened.

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Yeah, and so sometimes I might have more food on hand than I should. But you know what I don't want to come home to a fridge full of wasted food and wilted veggies.

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And the whole reason you buy veggies is so that you have them, so you eat them right so okay, just buying your veggies and letting them wilt in their fridge is not going to help your budget or your body, so you have to actually eat the veggies. So I go in the kitchen, I make sure everything's washed and prepped so that it's in travel friendly edible form yes and she likes to eat that.

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So if she buys too much food then I'm not a big breakfast ride when I get up, but then she's like you got to eat all this before we go. Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?

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I know it's all healthy, but I got to make him eat, so a trip is often a great excuse to eat our veggies, because it's there it's in the car.

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Right, you don't want to carry them around and they're going to be the most perishable, so you want to eat those first. So that's kind of how we work it at home. We eat what's going to expire first and we eat that, and then we kind of work down from there. So that's we also kind of carry that little habit on the road with us. So if I need something cold, if I have lots of cold, yeah, so if I need something cold.

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If I have lots of cold, I will put ice in a Ziploc, you know, and then I'll put that. I have these little, like you know, lunchbox bags, lunchbox bags. People have those insulated things. We have a couple of those and so we've used those.

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Sometimes I'll just use a shopping bag.

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That's when we're on a car trip, yeah, and sometimes I'll use a. We have like an actual cooler, so, depending on how much food, we might just put some ice in a Ziploc. Another thing that you can do, which is great for long road trips, is freezing your water bottles in advance and then you put that in with your food that you want cold and then, when you're done, you have some ice water to drink when the ice has melted.

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I like to take food bars sometimes, but more than that I like to take mixed nuts like a mix of homemade mix of nuts.

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So raw nuts are like the best for you, right?

Speaker 1: 7:49

Organic raw nuts are the best ones for you, but the roasted salted tastes so much better.

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So I have recently been roasting our nuts and that's been a really good thing, except for the time when I caught our oven on fire.

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But other than that, if you don't Flames leaping from the oven.

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Y'all, I got to finally use a fire extinguisher for the first time.

Speaker 1: 8:09

Oh, a huge mess in the kitchen.

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It was craziness.

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Extinguisher powder everywhere, so don't set your oven on fire when you're roasting your mix that extinguisher stuff all over them. That was awful, we don't know why. So she made me still eat them. Oh, I'm not gonna eat them.

Speaker 2: 8:23

They taste terrible, okay well besides, they were black, so keep an eye on nuts. But I just this, I just rory.

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Pay close attention to your nuts.

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Just lay them on a baking sheet.

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Don't leave.

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Don't leave, and I was in the kitchen when the fire started. It's not like I wasn't paying attention. So, anyway, let them roast in the oven and then you can salt them. Those are, that's to me. That's the best way.

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Sometimes I just like to get a snack when I stop for gas. Something about that. If it, if it energizes you, yeah, that's okay. Like, sometimes it's exciting to have something different, so that's all good. So don't limit yourself if you're tired and going to drive dangerously.

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And I found that's kind of the only time we need snacks is if, like one of us, is driving and starting to get tired. Obviously, our rule is to not drive tired.

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We do not.

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Yes, that is our rule if you're just not fully tired yet or whatever. But you know that, like some, eating something while you're driving would be a little pick-me-up that's. That's when you would have snacks. I've noticed that we really don't need snacks on the road not as much as you'd think. We have meals and you're full right and you're sitting around all day and so really like that can be a pitfall for someone to go.

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Hey, we're going on a road trip, let's buy all these chips and let's buy all this processed food.

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And that's not your excuse to now eat bad. Just because you're traveling, you don't have to get snacks, but if you do, like, I like having healthy options on hand, and then I'm not forced to buy whatever's at the gas station. I'm not at their mercy. I'm like, hey, I have these healthy, fun things that I enjoy.

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We've been trying to reduce.

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For sure.

Speaker 1: 10:12

How many we bring.

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Yes, I also have what I call my little sleeping bag, so that's a little kit in itself. You won't fit in that Right, I don't actually climb into it. But we mentioned we take sometimes some melatonin, no sugar gummies. We've kind of done less of that and we've like, I think lately we've moved over to like a, I think because they changed the recipe.

Speaker 1: 10:33

They just don't taste right anymore. They must have done something.

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Maybe they changed to some kind of fake something I don't know, I and I think melatonin is different on my body right now, so for me.

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But you're supposed to take it, not just put it on your body right, right, right, but simply sleep is another.

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Like that's an over-the-counter, non-addictive one supposedly z-quill is non-addictive so if you're needing, like, some kind of help, but you don't want a prescription, sometimes you gotta get sleep some right, and so sometimes something like that could be a nice little thing to have on hand.

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Previous episodevious episode we mentioned lavender essential oil. So I had these little trial essential oils and you can buy refillable essential oil containers on Amazon. So yesterday I just filled two tiny, tiny essential oil bottles and that's what I'm taking with me on this trip that I leave for today. So I've got one that's like lavender and sleep helping and then another one that is like a germ fighting essential oil.

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So I have those with me because I'm going to be around a bunch of crowds on this next trip.

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Another kind of helpful thing that we take with us are earplugs. I have those in my sleeping bag. I do have an eye mask in my sleeping bag, but like a headband that I put on around my face, like when I'm washing my face, and I've learned that I can just use that as the eye mask and then I'm not packing two things, yeah, right. So we want to minimize as much as possible. I also have found snore ease, which Rory sleeps better when I don't snore.

Speaker 1: 11:59

Oh my gosh.

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And I don't have the apnea. We found these snore ease strips in Finland because we love going to their pharmacies and seeing, like, what do they have that we don't have? But I have found these snore ease strips on Amazon and they're like a breath strip that go on the top of the roof of your mouth and then they have the. What are these ones?

Speaker 1: 12:20

Breathe right, yeah, breathe right strips.

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So those could also be. Those don't stick to my skin because I usually, like, have so much moisturizer on my skin when I go to sleep, but anyway. So those are things that help Rory sleep. If you want to put some of those in your kit, right, yeah, please, y'all, I'm the only one that gets sleep with him, okay, so for immune support, we have talked about the immune crystals and Vitamin.

Speaker 1: 12:46

C Z yeah, all of that.

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But in addition to not only supporting our immune system, I noticed Rory and I also take a lot of supplements with us vitamins. So sometimes Rory will just take his vitamin cabinet and just shove it all in a bag if it's a road trip and he'll just take that, and even if we're flying, sometimes he'll just take all the vitamins?

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Yeah, I'll take the essentials. He takes the full bottle. Well, yeah, sometimes I do, Sometimes I don't. It depends on how long the trip is. If we're going to two months in Europe, then yeah, I take the full bottle.

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What I do is I have these little small containers that used to hold like salad dressing and they were from the meal kits when we did green show, so they give a nice flavor to the. No, these are clean, but I reuse them for all kinds of things. I have one that I put on my little hair pieces. Hair pieces, my like bobby pins and hair clips.

Speaker 1: 13:34

You put a bottle that you put on your bobby pins.

Speaker 2: 13:35

No, I have this plastic bottle with a lid that's small and that I use one of those Used to be a kitchen item, but now I use it, I almost burnt my hand. We have candles in here. I use it, though, and I put my little hair accessories in there.

Speaker 1: 13:50

I see you put your hair accessories in there.

Speaker 2: 13:52

Yes, Okay Okay. So I have that, but I also use those thingies for my vitamins and I know what each of the vitamins are and what they look like, what colors they are and all that. So I just mix them all into one thing. I don't need to know what's what, because mostly I'm taking them just, you know, one a day kind of thing with a meal.

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We have also traveled on a different subject here. We travel with fitness bands, love them. I've noticed that I'm not great at working out at home. Never have been. I always went somewhere to work out when I was, you know, playing sports. I would go somewhere to work out, yeah. But you seem to do pretty well bringing fitness bands with you in a hotel room and stuff like that. Yeah, a yoga mat, foam roller, these kind of things.

Speaker 2: 14:32

Well, I don't. I've never brought a foam roller, but they do have many ones. My physical therapist tortured me this past week with a thin roller and that would fit in a suitcase. Okay so, but yeah, usually resistant bands. I used to bring even little tiny weights, but I'm trying to reduce and be good.

Speaker 1: 14:54

Well, you can do a lot with body weight. Yeah, absolutely Didn't you bring a mat to Europe. This last year.

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Yes, and y'all can catch our video on Instagram where I show how I did that, because forever I have never been able to find a way to bring a mat where I can work out. So I came up with a way, so y'all will have to check out our Instagram post about that. Now, on the first aid side right With we're talking wellness. So sometimes it's a good idea to travel with a first aid kit. So if you're traveling for like camping, bring like a full on first aid kit right, because you're going to need all the stuff. But for the most trip, the trips we're doing are like mostly business trips and just visiting family, so I only usually just put in a band-aid or two in my wellness kit yeah, no, the only thing I'll have in mind is I won't even, I don't even generally care band-aids, carry band-aids.

Speaker 1: 15:46

It might have something for uh, pain in case like an ibuprofen you get too much for me.

Speaker 2: 15:56

And then I'll give it to you so that, no, I carry something Too much more than normal.

Speaker 1: 15:58

No, yeah, I'll carry something like an ibuprofen or something better than that, Like you know, because they say it's not so great for your gut.

Speaker 2: 16:05

Right, right. You don't want to be in the habit of that.

Speaker 1: 16:08

Because I've gotten in the situation where I needed something like that a good, bit after driving for 16 hours or something.

Speaker 2: 16:14

And I think we've talked about this on a previous episode. But I think in future Europe trips we'll also take like a Dayquil Nyquil kind of but a tablet would travel much easier.

Speaker 1: 16:23

At least kind of get you through that first.

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You just, you know, you just want to take this stuff that'll get you through until you can get to a pharmacy or something like that. But the trip I'm leaving on today, I'm going to be walking all week on my feet nonstop. I will be bringing Band-Aids on this trip.

Speaker 1: 16:40

And shoes. I will be wearing shoes, this will be part of your wellness. Yes, that will be part of my wellness.

Speaker 2: 16:45

Yes, I'm definitely taking two pair and I'm taking changing insoles so that I don't wear out. You know, keep it all fresh and keep my feet fresh, and it should help them.

Speaker 1: 16:54

Most people don't think about journals being part of a wellness routine, but you know they can be. If you tend to stress a lot in life and think through things like all the time and you're trying to go to sleep, you can't go to sleep. Your mind's going crazy racing. Maybe a journal could help. Yes, or you have nonstop ideas and things like that, wonderful ones you can put on your phone, even though you're not supposed to look at that before you go to bed. Right, still, you could, you know.

Speaker 2: 17:18

But when you're journaling for like just general wellness, it is more therapeutic to actually do pen to paper than it is to type it on the phone.

Speaker 1: 17:27

So take your Apple pen with your iPad.

Speaker 2: 17:28

So that is a good, helpful, helpful thing. And then for me, just like my Bible on my phone, I mean that is spiritual wellness and having that little tool. I love the app that I use. It's called YouVersion. Rory uses that one as well and it has so many tools within it and little devotionals and prayer things and all of these things that kind of help just guide the journey, and so that's super great. I love that. Yeah, I love those. So that's kind of our list what is in your travel wellness kit? So let us know when we post about this episode on Instagram, we want to know what you bring on your wellness kit. What have we forgot to mention here, or what are some of yours? Now, we do bring our prescriptions too. That's one thing.

Speaker 1: 18:07

Yeah, obviously we try to remember that though I have forgotten Yep, Yep. Try to keep those to a minimum too, so in addition to letting us know what you take in your wellness kit, don't forget to subscribe Right Subscribe, leave a review. We need reviews from you. Yeah, we want to know what you think and join us next time for more travel and wellness tips.

Speaker 2: 18:26

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