While we are absolute squares, who are roughly as uncool as possible (there’s no way to make hiking boots cool in many circumstances we’ve worn them in, and we walk around with paper books as old squares do), we were practicing Spanish in Duolingo and hit exercises referring to a pen. A pen in Spanish is un lapicero in Guatemala, una pluma in Mexico, and probably un boligrafo everywhere.
I took a pen with me wherever we went, sometimes in a shirt pocket, though also in bags in part since we’ll have to fill out paperwork at the airport at least a couple times, and there’ll be things to sign. I took a few pens and guarded them. Not only are they handy, but then you don’t need to remember the right word for “pen.”
The Nature Bloggist 