How can I find peace of mind on your travels - Tips from a Pro

How can I find peace of mind on your travels - Tips from a Pro -

We travel a lot as a small family of four - a lot. We schlep somewhere in the country at least once a month, mini carry-ons and comfort blankets for children in tow. At least once a year we do a major pilgrimage to a place really out of our comfort zone, like last summer when we traveled by train through Eastern Europe for a month. It took us a few years to really get the process of packing the kids just right, and it is only now that they are both a little older, I do not have to remember to pack seven kinds of snacks for an airplane trip. But the most important thing I can do is make an emergency plan


Before the luggage is packed and plants watered one last time, my husband and I do something far less glamorous .: calling a brother-in-law to make sure he knows where all the important documents in case of emergency. While my husband and I do not travel together without children, very often, we always travel as we do just so we're safe. We update our list of beneficiaries, and make sure the executor of our will know where it is located and how to get to any problems. In case. God forbid something should happen to one of us in the middle of Europe where we need to get important documents and one at home knows what we're talking about.
Here is a list of basic things to take care of before you leave home:

• Project will: it must not be as detailed as you'll ever leave, but something is better than nothing. Date him, have notarized, and put it somewhere very safe.
• In that determination, the list of beneficiaries of your assets. My husband and I are not the largest collection of wealth, but we do not want to leave the state to decide who gets what when we die.
• Also list what will happen to your children in the will. If you have not had this horrible conversation is now time. There really is not a good way to do this, simply sit down and decide who goes where before you walk from your door; nothing is as important as deciding what will happen to your children should something terrible happen to you and your spouse
• Get a bank in room safe. even if you buy the cheapest available box, you want somewhere safe and out of your home for really important papers to live. Put the key somewhere even safer.
• Put a copy of all your insurance policies in a safe. Make sure a friend or family trust knows the safe and its contents in case of emergency.
• Make copies of passports, birth certificates, insurance policies, mortgage statements and medical records to store in the trunk.
• Put someone in charge of watching your house. Whether or not they remain on the property and care for children, make sure that someone is on your property at least twice a day by taking the paper off the porch, electronic control, recovery packages and turn lights on and off.
• Set up self-pay bills or take care of them during the period of time you'll be away. Nobody wants to come home from a lovely holiday in a notice of termination to the front door.

Now, have a great time on your holiday vacation! No need to worry about anything at home, you have taken care of everything.