Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

28 Sep 2014, 21:52 p.m.

Travel Tips

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2014 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

A few things I do.

  • Never put anything in a seat-back pocket unless you're willing to walk away from it. For me, this means magazines, snacks, and miscellaneous rubbish go in the seat-back pocket on airplanes, buses, and trains, but books, electronics, and durable water bottles don't.
  • To fall asleep on a flight: red wine, pasta, melatonin, sleep deprivation for the previous day, eye mask, hoodie with the hood up, and a sleep playlist that I only ever listen to while going to sleep.
  • Plug and chug: Carrying a two-foot CAT-5 (Ethernet) cable in my electronics zip-top bag comes in handy more often than it would if all Wi-Fi were reliable.