Closed September 2017

Summer Travel Tips Update

PointitIn continued celebration of summer traveling, here are a few tips and updates for the organized traveler! First, I just found this great translator picture book called "Point It." I have seen other "point to the picture" language assisting tools, but this one looks like it might be the best one. It’s certainly well-rated by the people who use it.  It looks like it’s harder to find in the US, but I ordered one from Amazon for about $6.00.  This photo here is from the publisher’s website.  It’s passport-sized and contains about 1200 photos.  It’s the result of the author’s extensive travels in 5 continents.

I just returned from 2 weeks in Puerto Rico and Florida, and as many of you may know, my bag was "delayed" when getting to PR and I posted some tips here about lost luggage.  I received several comments and tips from our readers about this, probably the best one being that you want to make sure you’re going to be in the destination city for a couple of days if you are checking bags… in other words, if you land and then drive or fly off to stay somewhere else far away, you probably need to make sure you carry on.

It Happened Again!

When we just returned home, my SON’s bag was lost!  We landed on Wednesday, July 4th and we STILL do not have it back today, Sunday.  I have never before had a lost bag, and on this trip it happened twice! Big lesson on this one: ALWAYS take just a second to look over each luggage tag they put on your bags when checking them, making sure they have your name on them and the proper destination city. What happened to my son’s bag is that they mistagged it with some guy’s tag who was going to Denver.  We figured this out too late when I happened to look at the tag stubs they handed me and one of them had this wrong info on it.  So they so far have sent his bag from Denver to Fort Lauderdale despite our instructions, which is just bizarre, and now they are still trying to figure out where it is and get it to Austin.  Unbelievable.  The other guy is probably also having the same problem.

Happy Trails!

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