Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.

I'm your host, William Kerb, and on Hacking Your ADHD, I dig into the tools, strategies,

and best practices that will help you work with your ADHD brain.

I'm getting ready to head out to this year's international conference on ADHD in Philadelphia later this week and thought,

what better way to get ready for my trip than putting together an episode on traveling with ADHD.

ADHD loves novelty and what could be more novel for an ADHD brain than going to a new place.

While you might love the destination, getting there can be really hard for those of us with ADHD.

The process of traveling someplace new takes a lot of work and a lot of attention to detail that can even

escape neurotypicals. Recently, my wife was booking our tickets to go visit family during Thanksgiving,

except after she booked the tickets, she realized she booked them for the wrong weekend.

Whoops! Well, fortunately she caught it early, and it wasn't too hard to fix.

But travel is a lot more than just booking tickets and getting to the airport on time.

The entire process of getting out the door with all your bags, to sitting and waiting

for your plane to leave, takes a lot of executive function, and we can really find ourselves

wiped out just thinking of everything we're going to need to do.

With a little bit of planning ahead, though, we can make traveling a lot easier on our ADHD brains.

So I've come up with my top seven tips for smoothing out your travel plans.

And just to note here, most of these tips are going to be focused on traveling by plane,

but can easily be applied to most other ways you can travel as well. But if you're one of those rare travelers that likes to go by hot air balloon,

well, I'm sorry, I don't have anything for you.

Hopefully this list will help with any other form of travel.

I'll be mentioning a lot of tools during this episode,

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