What is in My Travel “Go Bag”
I have anxiety so that means my brain is constantly planning for worst-case scenario. My anxiety also tends to be extremely focused on my health failing me at any given moment, which is stressful everyday, but especially while traveling.
I always recommend getting travel insurance (both for trip interruptions and medical coverage), but I keep 3 pouches full of things so I can easily throw it in my luggage and be as prepared as I can be for any minor issues that may arise.
I’ve separated them into 3 pouches:
Medical
Health
Toiletries
Medical
In my medical bag, I keep the following:
Neosporin
Pepto chewables
Tums
Benadryl (liquid caps, regular pills, and the cream) (I’m always so scared of developing a later-in-life allergy)
Sudafed or Mucinex (check local laws if either of these are legal to bring!)
Visine
Inhaler
I also keep my daily medications and vitamins in a pouch so that is easy to travel with.
Health
In my health bag, these are things to help when feeling maybe a little sickly, but not enough for medication
Liquid IV
Emergen-c
tweezers/nail clippers
Q-tips
Hand sanitizer spray (I love Touchland’s lavender scent)
Wet Ones wipes - for hands
Clorox wipes - for surfaces
Screen wipes - to clean my phone case and screen
Band-aids
Blister patches
Toiletries
It’s so easy to overpack your toiletries, but I think I mostly have this down to a science now…
Floss
Mini Toothpaste
Travel toilet paper (obsessed with this)
Mighty Hero pimple patches
Mini sizes of my hair care (Sephora and Ulta have mini sizes of everything… If you’d rather not pack a bunch of mini pots and cases for your liquids, I recommend buying the mini sizes of your current products)