Travel hacks

2019-05-18 — 2026-02-04

Wherein the traveller’s burdens are lightened by ranger-rolled shirts, local SIMs being preferred to costly travel ones, and the head being lashed upright to the seat by mask and harness.

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2 Online collaboration

See online collaboration.

3 Advanced luggage packing

Auditioning these:

4 To bring

See travel checklist.

5 Phone/data

Travel SIMs are more expensive than buying local ones, but they avoid various tedious local hassles, like onerous registration procedures and an hour of our life spent finding a vendor at an inconvenient moment.

6 Can I bring a folding bike?

Maybe.

7 Comfortable flights

As someone with a bony arse, I’m not comfortable sitting on planes. I use a basic gel cushion to keep my butt less achy on long flights. There are a million of these on our online retailer of choice; I recommend getting one with a handle so it can be carried easily. Weirdly, that handle doubles the price of the pillow. OTOH, I keep losing the ones I can’t clip onto my bag, so that price doubling pays for itself rapidly.

That’s for the arse pain. Now, neck pain:

Neck pillows don’t work, and I don’t know how we’ve lived so long with this lie. What does work is strapping my head upright with a sleep mask and a basic harness thingy that straps to the headrest of the seat. I use the SARISUN ones, which are cheap and effective. They all seem to work adequately for comfort. Some come with a chin brace; I didn’t get a chin brace because I couldn’t imagine what the purpose of a chin brace would be. Turns out, without a chin brace, my mouth hangs open when I sleep, which probably unsettles onlookers, and definitely leads to me drooling over myself like a suckling babe.

8 Jetlag

Often remediable with circadian rhythm timers such as Timeshifter.

9 Advanced Airbnb

10 Incoming