Traveling for business can be grueling. Long lines, inefficient airports, schedule delays and time away from home and family can turn a simple trip to see a client or go to a conference into an exhausting and lonely ordeal.
Anyone who travels for business has their own tricks, rituals and secrets to make it easier on the road.
These are 25 business travel tips that I've acquired along the way from road warriors I've met in both business and personal travels.
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I write this sitting in my "other office," a bustling happy place which many people know as Bongo Java East, my local coffee shop. Working at home is great, but sometimes you just need to feel other people around, and the coffee shop fills that need for many of us. Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City took her laptop to her local coffeehouse to write, and the neighborhood coffee shop was the setting for many scenes in TV hits Friends and Frazier.