Make your bag stand out – Airplane tip

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Make your luggage stand out! Customizing your luggage prevents others from mistakenly picking it up and helps you spot your luggage faster.

Customizing your luggage need not be expensive. Inexpensive options include:

  • tieing brightly-colored ribbons to the handles of each piece of luggage;
  • affixing bumper stickers to the hard, external parts of bags;
  • wrapping multi-colored duct tape to the outside of a piece of luggage;
  • monogram-stenciling the bag with paint;
  • attaching unbreakable holiday ornaments to a bag’s handles.

Always have two places in mind – Dining out tip

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Every vacationer’s itinerary should include broad strokes of where to eat at all points along the way. However, a smart vacationer always has two places in mind for each meal, because restaurants occasionally close with little warning.

Having two options in mind ahead of time certainly doesn’t limit you to those establishments only, but a little bit of advance work pays off when no better option presents itself during your tour.

Email your docs – International travel tip

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Missing documentation is among the the most challenging issues an international traveler can face. So, take a moment and email yourself the following:

  1. a scanned copy of your passport
  2. a scanned copy of your birth certificate
  3. a detail copy of your itinerary
  4. your airline reservations
  5. your hotel confirmations

While traveling, if you need any of the documents, you just need to get to your email client, and you can reproduce them easily.

Swap seats – Traveling with kids tip

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If traveling with another adult and children, change seats from time to time.

Swapping seats gives the grown-up a new perspective … and makes the child feel important for sitting in the seats normally reserved for “Mom” or “Dad.”

Finally, it also gives everyone a chance to have different conversations and makes the trip more fun.

Check your car – Road trip tip

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Taking a road trip is universally synonymous with adventure, relaxation, and new experience. While others might mention plotting out your trip, picking good stopping points, and making sure to have a rest and change drivers as often as you should, I won’t. Instead I’ll stress the one and only thing that you should never ever start a road trip without: a thorough mechanical check of your vehicle.

It you run out of sunscreen, you buy more. If you run out of money, you get some wired to you.

But if your car breaks while far from home… you’re stuck.