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Valentines Day Getaways With Pain
Posted in Accommodations, Lodgings, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, couples massage, romance travel, romantic getaway, Valentines trip on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of people go on romantic getaways sometime near Valentine’s Day. It’s a great time to take a trip with a loved one with the goal of spending some *ahem* quality time together, whether in a snowy clime or on a sunny beach. But what if you’re stuck with a menage-a-trois on your Valentines excursion, [...]
5 Ways to Make a Trip Less Painful
Posted in Travel Tips, tagged Arbor Guest House, bathtubs, chronic pain travel, inns on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Really, this whole blog is about how to make travel easier and less painful for us travelers with chronic pain and hidden disabilities. But everybody loves a good roundup. And what I’m thinking here is specifically how I diminish physical pain caused by travel. 1. Take painkillers. The road is not the place to try [...]
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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Keeping Warm When Traveling With Pain
Posted in Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, cold weather, Hawaii, Kauai, keeping warm, Lake Tahoe, ThermaCare, warm weather travel on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As the temperatures in my hometown plummet to 32 F (0 C)–brrr!–I find myself thinking about different ways to keep warm when I travel. Yes, I’m from California and I get cold when it’s 62 F. But the real problem is that when I get cold, my pain gets worse. So I’ve got to stay [...]
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 [...]
Why Slow Travel Works Better Than Fast Travel
Posted in International Travel, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, Prague, slow travel on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Once upon a time, I was young and healthy and pain-free. Like many college students, I took a couple of quarters to “study” abroad. I went to Paris, and used the locale as a base from which to travel much of Western Europe. Over the Christmas break, I shouldered a pack lent to me by [...]
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