I used to travel quite a bit for work (50%+). That changed a couple of years ago - last week was the first serious trip I had taken in exactly a year. So here is a list of reminders for the next time I travel:
- Do: Always take an umbrella - severe thunderstorms will always find you when you’re trying to drop off your rental car. Especially if the agency doesn’t have an awning at the drop-off, like the Avis at the New Orleans airport.
- Don’t: Expect to be comfortable in the air-conditioned rental car bus and airport after being soaked.
- Do: Know alternate ways to get to your hotel, even if you’ve been there many times before. You never know when the exit you used to take has been demolished (to be eventually rebuilt). You would be brash to assume detour signs would be posted.
- Don’t: Have a flat tire on Houston’s 610 Loop. Especially in the above-mentioned thunderstorms.
- Do: Leave your hotel 3 hours before your flight. Even if the airport is only 30 minutes away. Thunderstorms will turn roads that are usually 80 in the slow lane into blinker-fests with top speeds of 30.
- Don’t: Expect good service at the hotel restaurant, no matter how nice the hotel is, 15 minutes before they close.
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