What simple items do travel experts and frequent travelers slip in their suitcases/backpacks to make their trips smooth and easy?Several years ago when I was visiting Cusubamba, a remote village in Ecuador, one of my fellow travelers carried plastic bottles of bubbles in her backpack. When we exited our tour bus, many Ecuadorian children ran toward our group, clamoring to see the American tourists. My friend pulled out one of her bottles and blew a myriad of bubbles toward the children.
It got me wondering: What other simple items do travel experts and frequent travelers slip in their suitcases/backpacks to make their trips smooth and easy? So I asked. Here’s what they told me.Mitch Glass, a travel blogger from Cali, Colombia, swears by duct tape. Whenever he travels, he wraps several layers of duct tape around his deodorant stick; this takes up less room in his backpack than toting a whole roll. “I cannot tell you how many times this has come in handy,” Glass says.
Frequent traveller and public-relations agency principal Kristie Aylett also puts clothes pins in her overnight bag. She uses them to clip snack bags closed, to pin clothes on a line to dry and to close gaps in drapes. “It never fails that hotel-room curtains don’t quite close, leaving an annoying gap that lets in a beam of light into an otherwise dark room,” Aylett says.Aylett always packs a whistle as well.
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