Travel Tips...
Travel Checklist
Planning the Trip
- Check your frequent flyer mileage information
- Request any special needs (dietary, smoking/non)
- Decide if you need travel insurance (highly recommended)
- Make sure your passport is valid and obtain visa, if necessary
- Obtain innoculations, if required
- Know benefits of your medical coverage out of your home area
- Determine if your car insurance will cover you on a rental car
- Arrange transportation
- Arrange for care of pets while you are away (if you're not taking them with you)
- Leave emergency contact information with family members or friends
- Put hold on mail and newspapers or arrange for someone to pick up
- Pay bills that will be due when gone
Day of Departure
- Water plants
- Clean out the refrigerator and empty the trash
- Update answering machine
- Adjust thermostat
- Lock windows, doors, set house alarm
- Tag all of your luggage
Don't Forget to Pack...
- Medications, vitamins and over-the-counter medications
- Extra suglasses, glasses, contact lenses
- Cell phone and charger
- Camera, batteries, film, portable music players
- Snacks and water
- Travel maps, guidebooks, phrase book
- Mini sewing kit, first-aid kit
- Toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss
- Lip balm and sunscreen
- Insect repellant
- Portable alarm clock
- Travel plugs/adapters if traveling to a foreign country
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Confirmation numbers for all of your reservations
- Travelers checks, credit cards
- Drivers license, auto insurance info, health insurance card
- Passport/Visa and any other required documentation
- Long distance phone card
Passport
Effective December 31, 2006, anyone traveling to or from the United States MUST have a valid passport. This includes traveling to Mexico, Canada and the Carribean Islands, whether by air, rail or cruise.
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