air travel novice

walkinghome
Sun, 01 May 2011 09:37:15 +0000

My one piece of advice is to make sure your carry-on is a bag with wheels. I’ve made the mistake a couple of times of taking a duffel bag and then having to lug it further then I thought I would have to. In fact, I think that may be the initial reason for my frozen shoulder last year.

Put the address and phone number of the place you are staying in your phone or write them down and bring it.

EXCELLENT suggestions about getting to the airport extra early. That really does take care of most of the stress. Make sure to do that for the return flight as well.

I always take a bottle of water - drink/empty it before security, put it in your purse empty and then refill from the water fountain on the other side of TSA. I’ve never been denied my empty water bottle, but if you do have to toss it, no biggie if it’s just a disposable bottle anyway. Pack lightly, have your ziplock bag of travel size cosmetics on top, and enjoy yourself!