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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: Traveling Soon? 30 Hacks for a Happier Trip [Revisited]

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes—our travel hacks extravaganza. These 30 tips range from the obvious (check the weather!) to the oddly specific (pack Downy Wrinkle Releaser), and as we get ready for our first-ever sisters reading retreat, we’re realizing how many of these tricks we’ve forgotten—and how helpful they still are. Some things really do stand the test of time.

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Today, we are bringing back one of our favorite episodes, our 2016 travel hacks

1:27.4

extravaganza. And Elizabeth, our timing couldn't be better

1:30.7

because very soon we are going on our first ever sister's reading retreat. Yes, it's just the two

1:39.3

of us, stacks of books and lots of time to read. I can't wait. And of course, Gretchen, I've been

1:45.2

thinking about what I need to pack so this episode could not come at a better time.

1:50.0

Me too. And, you know, I went back and listened to this episode to refresh my memory on the

1:54.2

hacks. And I kept thinking like, oh, yes, about the power strip and the hotel bag. And why did

2:00.0

I ever stop doing some of these things?

2:01.7

It's just we got so many brilliant ideas from listeners, but you forget them.

2:05.4

I needed a reminder.

2:06.9

Yeah, it's funny how you can know something works, but then just forget to do it.

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