I’ve got two of the essentials ready for our upcoming mini vacation: some good reading and a crochet project. I’m packing the following
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
by Carol Fisher Saller
Sisterchicks Down Under
by Robin Jones Gunn
cloth strips for a brown and pink rag rug
first teacher 
It is always good to have a book or two on vacation…you never know when you might be stuck with little or nothing to do.
Where are you going and how long? That's a lot of books for a vacation.