Did you ever experience arriving in your travel destination literally carrying a lot of baggage? Then suddenly, you felt a pain in you nape and when you reach out to your bag to grab your prescribed medications for hypertension you realized that you forgot it. Frustrating isn’t it?

Packing your suitcase, apart from booking a flight and making hotel reservations, are part of the excruciating process of travelling preparation. Most especially if it’s an abrupt vacation. It’s difficult to decide if which items are needed to “take hold” and “let go”. If only there’s a shrinking machine so you could fit all the contents of your house into one valise, then problem solved! Since the proposed solution is impossible, here are the top essential things you must bring when travelling.

Travel Itinerary Planner

Spending the rest of the day on the hotel room while munching on room service is what usually happens to travelers without a structured vacation scheme. Out of towns or out of the countries are rare occasions, so when you get the chance make sure you get the most out of it. Do research on tourist attractions, best place to eat, perfect spot to drink beer, anything that might interest you and your travel companions.

Medications

                  Bring your own medications most especially when travelling abroad. Metric units of medications vary in different countries. Aside from that, you don’t know if the place that you’re going to stay in has a nearby pharmacy. Antihistamines, anti motion sickness, antipyretic, analgesics, and anti diarrhea are over the counter drugs which you should have. For prescribed medications, make sure that you bring along the doctor’s prescription with you if you ran out.

Head to Toe Apparel

Girls usually are the ones who have this problem. They tend to squeeze in all the contents of their closet into the poor luggage. And what’s even worst is they try to bring different shoes to match different outfits. Listen everyone; you are going on a vacation not a fashion show. So try to reduce the number of clothes that you will bring like:

• A pair of comfortable walking shoes (flip-flops, sneakers, espadrilles, or ballet flats) – make sure you bring socks if necessary!
• A pair of shorts or pants
• Shirts and blouse
• A jacket
• Underwear
• Hat
• One or two “dress to impress” garments

A Hand-Carry Luggage that can be Carried by Hand

                  To make your travel more carefree, sling bags are the most convenient to use. All you have to do is just hang it on the side of your body and voila, you’re good to go! One piece of unsolicited advice, sling bags made from fabric or denim are much suited for travel than those expensive leather bags.

What should you put on your hand-carry?

• Handkerchief/face towel/tissue/wet wipes
• Sanitizer/alcohol
• Something to freshen you up like loose powder, lip balm, and cheek tint
• Your phone
• Wallet with cash of course
• Shades
• A bottle of distilled water
• Chocolate candies when you got dizzy
• Inhalers for asthmatic
• Camera to capture your vacation

Author Bio:

Patrick Del Rosario is a travel blogger, photographer, and sports enthusiast from the Philippines. He is now based in USA and has ventured in the rv rental business.