Just been reading Pico Iyer's latest book "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home" and boy does it resonnance our lives...

He starts a chapter on rootlessness among a whole new class of professionals who are frequent flyers -- not to be confused with "Jet Setters" -- with a description of what he found in the Hong Kong apartment of friends he was staying with:

"When I went into the guest bathroom to splash some water over my face -- I hadn't yet come down to earth -- I found some Thai Air hair treatment next to the sink, and a bottle of La Quinta Resort & Spa moisturizer. There was a Delta business class toilet kit nearby, as well as a British Airways towlette and some Princess Cruises French formula shampoo. Otherwise, nothing whatsoever, except for some toothpaste from some Imperial Hotel."

Now doesn't that describe the guest bathroom in most of our own homes, or what?

A must-read for most of us who visit these fora!