Before you leave Checklist
Make sure:
1. You Let someone you trust in your office or neighborhood know when you will be leaving and when you will return
2. If you are leaving for an extended period of time arrange someone to create some activity in your home and remove all signs that you are away (newspapers, mail collection, park in the driveway, etc) Otherwise cancel mail and newspapers, and set your lights to timers.
3. Arrange for someone to mow your lawn and/or remove snow
4. Unplug heat producing appliances (toasters, coffee makers, irons, curling irons, etc)
5. If you are going somewhere exotic prearrange contact times with someone looking after your home
6.Take notarized photocopies of your passport with you when you travel abroad.
On the Road or In the Air Check List
1. Always lock your luggage, and don’t let it out of your site while its in your possession. When you leave it with a bellman or porter, ask for a receipt.
2. Do not get into a taxi with someone other than the driver in it, and don’t let the taxi pick up someone you don’t know.
3. Get a street map of where you are going and study it so when you walk, you know where you are going and you look like you belong.
4. You travel with an emergency identification card that has your allergies/conditions, emergency contact numbers etc.
5. You know where the fire exits are closest to your hotel room
6. You Keep the safety lock in place at all times when you are in your hotel room
7. You leave valuables in the hotel safe (leave original copies of passport in the safe and keep notarized copies on your person)
8. When you register at a hotel, you don’t day your name loudly, and you never answer the phone with your name.
9. You carry a door wedge or door handle alarm in your luggage and use it to wedge shut your room door
10. You always request a room on an upper floor, if possible
11. You use your do not disturb sign whenever you are in your bathroom
12. When you arrive at our hotel room, you prop open the door with your luggage until you have inspected the rooms hiding places
13. You ask a bellman for an escort and use valet parking at night