Happy New Year, everyone.
I was assigned to a project at work this past year that dramatically increased the amount of traveling I had to do. I went from an average of two trips a year to fifteen. While that might not be a huge number to some of you biz travelers, it sure taught me a thing or two. Here are my top ten:
10. Buy a travel set of toiletries. You don’t want to waste time tracking them down every time you leave the house.
9. Just because the lights in your own car turn off automatically when you take the keys out doesn’t mean that they do the same thing in your rental car.
8. You’d be amazed at the amount of jewelery that doesn’t set off the metal detectors in the airport. And at the amount of liquids that you can smuggle past security in your purse. This last statement does not apply to half-drank bottles of Diet Coke, however…they’ll call you on those.
7. Always build in more time to your travel than you’ll need. Sure, it’s wasted 99% of the time, but you’ll be awfully glad you did when you hit that 1%.
6. Never completely unpack your suitcase once you arrive home. It just gives you the opportunity to forget things.
5. Airport gift shops are a great place to pick up unique birthday and Christmas gifts for your friends and family. It helps kill time, and it saves you the trouble of scrambling around for these items on your precious days off.
4. Watching takeoffs, landings, and cloud formations from the window seat of a plane never gets old.
3. Eating out in restaurants does.
2. Our bodies all respond differently to the stresses of air travel. Mine requires lots of water, eye drops, and ibuprofin. And chocolate.
And my personal favorite lesson learned:
1. There’s no place like home.
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