![]() You can find a house or pet sitter to do your chores if you’re willing to list your home on. Any alerts you receive will let you know whether or not to plan for some unexpected obstacles in advance. Subscribing to the State Department’s STEP alerts for your destination can help you stay up to date on upcoming and current travel restrictions, strikes, and areas of political unrest. Travel insurance and State Department alerts can be incredibly important in emergencies abroad, but many tourists bet they won’t become part of the small percentage of travelers who require evacuation assistance or protection from hotel or flight cancellations. One of the easiest and most important items on an overseas travel checklist is also arguably the most ignored. Focus on Safety First megaflopp | Adobe Stock To save you some prep time, we’ve compiled this international travel checklist for your next long-distance journey. Sure, showing up at your gate sans passport or forgetting melatonin for your red-eye flight can put a damper on your long-awaited escape, but most of your preparation should be dedicated to ensuring health, safety, and financial necessities are covered. Travel Motto: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark TwainĪisle, Window, or Middle Seat: "Window, of course."Įmail Shannon at internationally is an adventure best planned ahead of time, and not just when it comes to booking flights and packing. Ultimate Bucket List Experience: "Climbing (yes, climbing, it's steep!) the Great Wall of China before it's gone." They tame my frizzy curls and come in handy in a surprising number of packing and hotel dilemmas." The Handy Item I Always Pack: "Plenty of extra thick hair elastics. She's been quoted as an expert travel source by CNBC,, MarketWatch, The Washington Post, USA Today, and more. Her educational background is in journalism, art history, gender studies, Spanish, and film. Her stories have also appeared online on USA Today, The Sun, Huffington Post, Business Insider,, , and more. ![]() Travel trends, news oddities, and her visits to up-and-coming destinations are some of her favorite things to write about. A former news reporter, she's lived in the south of Spain, spotted elephants in Sri Lanka, gone spelunking in the Caribbean, hiked Jordan's Petra Basin, interviewed Sao Paulo's Michelin-Star chefs, and explored China via bullet train. Follow her on Twitter and on Instagram joined SmarterTravel in 2015. Editor Shannon McMahon is always planning her next trip and often writing in her travel journal.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |