Preparing for Your Next Long Haul Adventure

Hello and welcome to the traveling introvert part two of travel comfort stuff and things. So now I want to talk about tips about things to do before a long haul flight. If you have sort of short domestic flights beforehand and then are taking a nice long haul flight, something that's really nice to do is maybe change your t shirt, change your change your socks, item of clothing just to reset your brain into traveling for that long haul flight. With pants that you are wearing, don't wear the wide leg pants because bathrooms in airports and on the plane have really nasty floors, so try and wear pants that have, a cinched, like elasticated ankles. Scrubs are really good for this. Scrubs have a bunch of pockets and are breathable, material, comfortable, elasticated waistbands. Scrubs. I've talked about this in like one episode way back in the day but scrubs are definitely like my go to.

Also try and have a pocket or a bum bag or something where you keep your essentials should you, in the case of an emergency have to leave the plane. So, make sure it has like your passport, your wallet, and your phone. I'm sure there's other things that you might fill up medication maybe whatever is good for you but just so if anything thing happens that it's not in your bag that you don't have to dig for it, you can get up and leave as quickly as possible if necessary. Okay, apart from that other tips, Time Shifter app, wonderful app. I used to use that back in the day too. It's a great app for for if you're traveling over time zones and adjusting your sleep schedule, but and the time it doesn't work is if your flight gets delayed because all the prep that you've done goes out the window then. Then there is doing some stretches. Make sure you do some stretches, maybe get a massage before you get on the plane if you can fit that into your schedule.

Your body's gonna be cramped and tired and like all achy, so do whatever you can to make that better. Every couple of hours, try and draw the alphabet, individual letters with your feet, that will help with, as well as getting up, that will help with deep vein thrombosis and just keeping your your blood flowing. You get dehydrated on the plane, so this is why I carry liquid IV, but drinking on a regular basis, yes, it does mean you're gonna have to go to the bathroom more often. So here's the thing, are you an aisle seater, a middle seater, or window seater? Which is your favorite preference? For me, for long haul flights, it has to be an aisle. I want to be able to get up, I want to be able to move without, feeling like I'm disturbing the other person and I know those in the aisle are normally like it's fine you can disturb me but it doesn't stop that internal monologue of oh man I don't know what's in there sort of a thing. Food, so there is no guarantee that you will like the food that is on the flight. So anything that you can do to make sure that maybe maybe have, some tea that you like that you could bring on, though everyone says don't drink the hot water, so that's a whole other thing. But if there's some food, comfort food that you can bring with you it could be your favourite snack, it could be a takeaway from your favourite restaurant, we have a restaurant that a Thai restaurant that did these amazing curry puffs that used to be great to travel with, because they didn't need to be like refrigerated refrigerated and you could have them on a flight.

Any kind of food that you eat slowly and in parts can go well especially when watching movies and trying to keep yourself occupied. Think about splitting up your long flight into segments. You know first two hours is normally, drink service and feeding and then maybe you watch a couple of movies and then maybe you switch to a book or maybe you you know what's a really good time to do if you're on a long haul flight is to clean out all the videos and pictures that you don't need on your phone so you have space to take more. It's a really good thing to do also on your laptop you could go ahead and like reorganize everything and tidy it up then maybe this next feeding and then maybe there's meditation, maybe you you have a project that you want to think about or blue sky thinking or I'll I said that corporate talk. Just dreaming, daydreaming, staring out the window, whatever it is that works for you but splitting that time up can help it go faster because there's nothing worse than being like oh it's only been an hour, oh no, it's only been two hours. So, think of ways that you could create a day and experience, build an experience out of your long term travel. Podcasts, audiobooks, ebooks, an actual book are all great things to have for travel. So, I'd love for you to email me at janice@thecureanthrovert.com and tell me what your favorite travel things are.

Thank you for listening. This is Janice at the career introvert helping you build your brand and get hired. Have a great rest of your week.