After over 25 years of traveling the globe with one to three international trips per year, I can assure you a library could easily be written about “international travel.”

Most of you would never take the time to read the books, but perhaps you might take time to read Traveling Smart , by Carolyn Hayes Uber. I found the “best of a traveling library” condensed into one very interesting book that would prove to be an asset to the person doing international travel.

Among the subjects covered in the book are:

Making Plans

Passports and Other Documents

Airline Arrangements

Several chapters pertaining to hotels and reservations, car rentals, and related subjects.

Airports, Check-In, Luggage, Jet Lag, Medical Matters, Dining, Safety, and Getting Back Home are just some of the subjects.

Some of the information relative to the plane:

“Nearby Restrooms – Avoid seats close to the restrooms, even if you expect to use the restroom frequently. There's often a line, so you'll end up waiting your turn anyway…

Galley Seats – Avoid seats near the galley. Food and drink preparation and clean up can be quite noisy.

Front Row Seats – Avoid front row seats in each cabin section….usually saved for those traveling with babies. Also, because they're adjacent to galleys and restrooms…

Back Row Seats – Seats in the back row of each cabin section don't recline as much as other seats, if they do at all.

There is an excellent First Aid Checklist for your traveling medical kit, as well as a very good Carry-on Bag Checklist, a Master Packing Checklist, and a list of things to keep in your travel organizer.

The list of “Traveling Annoyances” just might save you being one of those annoying people:

  Perfume too strong, talking too loudly, getting too close, crying babies,   

  and body odor. People who grab the back of your seat top as they get

  in and out has to be included also.

I found the How Not To Get Lost section fairly helpful, but would have added even more helps to the list.

Near the back of the book there are a number of sections that list important address for the traveler to have with them. For $14.95 I think it would be an excellent investment for the person learning international travel, or for a person who has had only limited travel experience even domestically. Every traveler would find something in the book “to make their life easier” – even I did!

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