Short trips are the hardest..no routine etc. When I traveled a lot stateside in 2004 helping folks get ready for Iraq, we'd go place for 2-3 months at a time. One guy had a freezer that we'd bring, another had a huge forman grill etc. One place didn't have DSL in our part of the hotel and one of our guys was a signal officer...we ran cat 6 from the road and into 3 rooms.