As wonderful as traveling can be; it can be equally skeevy.  Protect yourself with tapestries.  Tapestry might be a bit of a misnomer.  We aren’t talking the woven things that hung on walls in the 15th century.  Use them for extra warmth or a barrier between you and the hotel bed.  Tapestries make the best beach blankets.  At the end of your trip, you can even bundle all your dirty laundry inside by tying the four corners together.  Once you add tapestries to your packing list you will wonder how you ever traveled without them.