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Your child’s birthday coming up? Look no further for the perfect gift! The Playmobil Security Check Point will provide your family with hours of fun. It includes a passenger, two TSA agents, a luggage scan, and metal detector. Whether you’re trying to explain to your kids why you have to leave so early for flights,…
This time of year there are more inexperienced travelers than usual. While security can be very stressful for people who are not used to it, there are strategies to get through security with a minimum of fuss. Before you go through. Get your ID and boarding pass in your hand and ready to show to…
The effects of the week-long government shutdown are being felt all over the place. Certainly the hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees are feeling it. And travelers are another group who could be feeling it. Here is my advice for business travelers on surviving the shutdown. Send in your passport or visa paperwork early. If…
TSA Pre-Check was recently rolled out at my airport, and several other airports that I frequent. While American initially offered me membership a few years ago, I (stupidly) did not sign up. After learning some of the many ways you can get Pre-check without an invitation, I decided to apply for Global Entry. I’m in…
Oh boy. Yesterday was an insane travel day. Even though day trips are always long, I should have known how rough it would be when my alarm was set for 430am, but my baby woke up at 4am. “Please, Mini Warrior!” I said. “Please can I have my extra 30 minutes!” He declined. At DFW,…
In a quick informal survey of family and friends, people were clearly the most stressed by packing one item. Not clothes, as you might think, or shoes. It was toiletries! My friends and family find the idea of compressing their skin care/hair care/shower regimen into a couple of tiny bags more daunting than any other…
A friend of mine (author of Confessions of a Coconut) is 6 months pregnant, and looks adorable and obviously pregnant. She also travels on a fairly regular basis. A few weeks ago, she was at the airport. In the security line, after she went through the scanner, the conversation went like this: TSA lady: “Ma’am,…
It’s a holiday weekend, and lots of people are on the road. Because more travelers than usual are less experienced, I wanted to share my top five airport security tips. 1) Give yourself some extra time. The lines will likely be pretty long, so it will definitely make things less stressful if you arrive earlier…
I have written several times about how I wear bike shorts under skirts and dresses on travel days. It just makes so much sense! It alleviates worry about any unexpected TSA pat-downs, wind gusts, or, of course, chafing. For what seems like forever I have just worn normal bike shorts from Target. My problem with…
A couple of years ago, I got an email from American inviting me to participate in a pilot program of some new expedited security system called “TSA Pre-check”. I was interested enough to read about it on the TSA website. It sounded very interesting, but I didn’t travel to any of the airports where it…
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