Staying Healthy during the Holiday Travel Season

These travel tips are good year round, but there's no better time to start than now. Be healthy when you travel to see your family during this Holiday Season. Thanks to Jim, Judy, Wendy, and Steve for these. Keep checking back here. I will add more healthy travel tips as they come in.

• take your vitamins before, during, and after your trip. Have some water with an Airborne or Emergen-C. Both help to boost the immune system with vitamin C and other vitamins and minerals needed to fight infection.
• before a flight put some antibacterial ointment on a cotton swab and coat your nostrils with it to combat germs from any fellow passengers who are coughing and sneezing
• keep a bottle of water in your briefcase/purse so you'll remember to stay hydrated
• stretch during your flight and in your hotel room at night
• scope out restaurant websites at your destination before you go to find some healthy options.
• try to get a little more sleep than you would normally get at home
• (when in a reasonably safe city) walk from hotel to wherever you're going - you get to see the city a bit and get some exercise.
• exercise in your room or the hotel's gym