Ok this travel tip is more a light-hearted tip than a serious one. Here's the deal.
You know how you can buy those travel pants with zips at the knees that you can convert into a pair of shorts? Great idea, huh? Well, yes they are because you can stay cool if you have to and then cover up in the cooler moments or if you're super paranoid about mosquitoes.
There's a problem though and it's purely cosmetic - I'm speaking from experience too.
If you, like me, use your zip-off travel pants mostly in 'shorts mode' it's all good. But when you go to zip on the other bits so that you can warm up a bit you might find that if you haven't used them much the shorts and the pants legs are a totally different colour! Damn that bright thing in the sky!
I tell ya, it fades EVERYTHING. So, the tip is this. Make sure you wash both the shorts and the pants legs together, even if you're not using the zip-on bits that often. That might at least wash-fade them at the same speed! If you want to look like a multi-coloured-pants hippie though, that's cool too. :)
