Whether you travel for business or pleasure, danger signs could be emanating from your mailbox. A few days away and the mailbox may be overflowing. Packages may be lying around on your doorstep. Yellow or pink slips from a delivery service may be stuck to your front door  - “Missed You While You Were Away.” [...]

Swimsuits should always be packed, even for business travel. You never know when that hotel in the middle of Minnesota might have a heated indoor pool, Jacuzzi or sauna. Make use of sample and travel-sized items found in drugstores and cosmetics counters. They take up so much less space than a full-sized product and it [...]

-Guest Post by Susan Bodack Every time you visit a new locale, it’s important to do your research. Whether you’re attending a business conference on the other side of the globe or simply going on a family vacation, you must read up on the local customs, attractions and of course, the local dress. The last [...]

Guest post by Susanna Zaraysky You’re on the road and you think you can’t learn a foreign language because you aren’t in one place long enough to take a class? Wrong. Languages are lived, not studied. Learn and live a foreign language while traveling. I speak seven languages (Russian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian) [...]

Conferences can be very worthwhile, both for business and pleasure. You look forward to the event and can’t wait to see friends or colleagues you haven’t seen in a while. I attend many conferences each year, both trade shows and meetings. Whether I am a speaker or an attendee, I have learned how to be [...]

Remember the movie Up in the Air and the scene with Natalie (played by Anna Kendrick) in the airport dragging her uber-heavy luggage? That used to be me! I didn’t carry a pillow in my luggage, but I had everything else – travel coffee pot, shoes, electric hair rollers, shoes, hair dryer, more shoes and [...]

Here’s a great resource for knowing what your luggage limits are for the airline you’re traveling on and to the cities you’re flying to: www.luggagelimits.com They offer detailed baggage allowance information on all routes and ticket classes for over 100 airlines! All of the information you need to avoid expensive airline luggage fees is provided [...]

When it comes to knowing the rules about traveling with your children, who better to ask than a gate agent who answers these questions all day long? Welcome to guest writer Cindy. Cindy works for a major U.S. airline in Orlando so she’s seen it all with the countless families traveling in and out of [...]

I always have a small container of baby or talcum powder in my luggage. The majority of the time, I’m using it to feel silkier and dryer after a shower or before I’m heading outside in the heat. Here are a couple of other great uses for baby powder: End up with a greasy spot [...]

Ideas for keeping productive while on a plane. We spend valuable hours on a plane that we’ll never get back. So what are ways we can make the most of these hours so that we feel it was time worth spent? Here are a few ideas for productive plane time: Read a few magazines that [...]