Travel
Do yourself the favor of avoiding lots of aggravation and pack your prescription medications in your carry on. It may be more convenient to pack them in your luggage, but what would you do if you end up in Aruba without your luggage and thus no medicine? Most people do not travel with written copies of their prescriptions.
I learned this lesson the hard way. Not wanting to lug a carry on, I packed my meds in my suitcase. The suitcase did not make it to my destination, thus I had NO medication.
Fortunately I was only traveling domestically and the luggage was delivered to my accommodations about 7 hours after my arrival.
My tips for traveling with medication.
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Travel
Traveling to Aruba With Prescription Medication
I learned this lesson the hard way. Not wanting to lug a carry on, I packed my meds in my suitcase. The suitcase did not make it to my destination, thus I had NO medication.
Fortunately I was only traveling domestically and the luggage was delivered to my accommodations about 7 hours after my arrival.
My tips for traveling with medication.
- Smart People Travel Light
Be a smart, one-bag packerYesterday I saw this skinny girl struggling with not one, but two huge pink carry-on bags. Holy cat! What on earth did she pack in there, her whole wardrobe or her two secret lovers? I always travel light. However the incident...
- The Case For The Purple Suitcase
Keri Anderson makes "The Case for the Purple Suitcase" I have written before about our distinctive orange luggage at Lightweight Luggage and Lightweight Luggage Update...
- Is Your Luggage Too Heavy?
On our recent trip my Dad said to me, "You know my suitcase feels so heavy even though I did not bring a lot of clothes." I asked him if he weighed the bag with his hand held scale and he said yes, he was just under the 50 pound limit. It reminded me...
- Christmas Presents To Aruba
So Jerry and I are having our annual discussion about Christmas presents. Each year when we travel, we pack our gifts, along with wrapping paper, scissors, gift tags and the much need scotch tape in order to wrap our gifts upon arrival at our destination....
- Flying To Aruba With Christmas Presents
After dh's and my recent discussion, I thought it a good time to rewrite this post from the end of 2007 when our family spent it's first Christmas in Aruba. Each year when we travel, we pack our gifts, along with wrapping paper, scissors, gift...