Tricks of Travel
August 1, 2011
Megan DeVere shrewdly comments on the drudgery of modern air travel in her piece “Enjoy Your Flight.” Almost all of us have experienced passengers who pack their “suitcase to roughly 15% beyond capacity,” “wear lace-up shoes that are difficult to remove, “keep “small metal objects in pockets” and “bring several large, hard-back books in order to stimulate cerebral development.” You may even be that type of traveler! (For the record: I am a light packer and always wear Toms for easy travel; however, I once left a pack of titanium drill bits in my carry-on luggage and pack far too many books).
What types of tricks do you use for travel?
I’ll go first: wear Toms!
This is hilarious. I think I’m always behind ‘that’ person when I travel. I even have three kids in tow so there’s a lot you can do to keep things a-movin’. Flip flops or slip ons, magazines instead of books (Ode mag is fantastic for travel), light snacks because they give you NOTHING to eat for free anymore; unopened, small water bottle, a few wet wipes cuz that hand sanitizer is going straight into the trash ones security discovers it and it’s red level terrorist threat, and also remembering to bring your own mind games that you must play while people watching, otherwise you will start to go insane. Pretend to guess the career path each stranger you see has chosen in life. “Oh, that man is CLEARLY a Hoover salesman! That woman is obviously an lion tamer and those boys are clearly Halo gamers!” Now your flight just got really interesting!