When I travel, I gotta sleep. There’s no way around it. No matter how many things I want to see, no matter what I want to do, if I don’t get plenty of sleep every single night I might as well stay home. So I think about sleeping when I plan my trips. When? For [...]
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Sleep: A Key Ingredient to Traveling With Pain
Posted in Accommodations, Lodgings, Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, hotel bedding, motel beds, sleeping hotel room, travel comfort, travel sleep on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Want a Great Holiday Gift: Try Traveling With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Products, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, holiday gift, how to travel, travel book gift, traveling with pain on November 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Looking for a gift for those people in your life who’s got chronic pain? How about the caregivers and spouses of people with hidden disabilities that make life a little bit harder–conditions like lupus, MS, diabetes, endometriosis, Crohn’s Disease, or cancer. Get them each a copy of The Imperfect Traveler’s Guide to Traveling With Pain. [...]
Holiday Travel Is Here Again! Traveling With Pain During Holiday Madness
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, family holiday, holiday travel, travel tips, trip tips on November 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s two days before Thanksgiving and you may be reading this post frantically looking for tips and tricks to deal with psychotically busy airports, painfully congested highways, over excited children, grumpy spouses, difficult in-laws, and the pain that stressful holiday travel brings and exacerbates. So what can you do to make it better? Lots of [...]
Essential Packing List for Travel With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Products, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel items, Matador, packing list, travel pillow, traveling with pain on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Leaving home at home” is fashionable for travelers right now. But I can’t drop my pain in a corner of my bedroom and leave it there when I walk out the door. (Oh, how I wish I could!) Without some basic self-care gear, my pain will spike and ruin my trip. Here’s a list of [...]
How to Travel Alone With Pain, Part 1: BlogHer 2011
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged BlogHer, chronic pain travel, packing, traveling alone, women travel solo on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Since a few people expressed interest, I’m going to write about how I go about traveling alone by writing about how I travel alone while I’m doing it. First up: the BlogHer 2011 conference in San Diego. I’ll be gone for four days and three nights, attending a huge energy-intensive event for two and a [...]
10 Tips for Traveling With Pain: Guest Post on EuropeUpClose.com
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged EuropeUpClose, travel pain, travel tips on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve done an overview roundup of tips for traveling with pain, focused on travel in Western Europe: 10 Tips for Traveling With Pain My regular readers will be familiar with a lot of these tips. So why’s it worth clicking the link? If for no other reason than the owners of EuropeUpClose (who are awesome, [...]
Traveling With Meds, A Super-Short Primer
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, Cymbalta, Lyrica, medication withdrawal, Neurontin, opioids, pills on vacation, SNRI, SSRI, travel medications on May 12, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Standard disclaimer…I am not a doctor, nurse, or medical professional of any kind. The blog post is not a substitute for the advice of your doctor–please talk to your doctor before you travel with any medication. That goes double if you’re traveling outside of your home country. For me, traveling with pain means traveling with [...]
People Like The Imperfect Traveler’s Guide to Traveling With Pain!
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged Imperfect Traveler's Guide to Traveling With Pain on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Imperfect Traveler’s Guide to Traveling With Pain has gotten some super-fabulous reviews. I’ve posted quotes over on The Imperfect Traveler. I’m excited that people are enjoying the book so much! Has anyone here bought Traveling With Pain yet? If you have, what did you think?
A Day Pack for Travelers With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged accessible pack for day excursion, day pack for disabled travelers, day trip with chronic pain, diaper bag, packing for day trip on March 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
While trotting about after my 2-year-old god-daughter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I spent some time digging through the diaper bag that goes everywhere with my best friend and her toddler, and I became inspired. Every other toddler’s parent at the Aquarium had their own diaper bag too–some sort of tote or pack filled [...]
Travel Budgeting With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel expenses budget, emergency vacation expense, travel budget, trip budgeting on March 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It costs more to travel with a hidden disability (or a visible one, for that matter) than it does for a healthy person. No, that’s not fair. But it’s the way the world works. The biggest thing that us travelers with pain need to budget for is the unexpected. Why? Because the consequences [...]
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