Leave the bulky guidebooks and printouts at home by combining all your important travel information into one easily-accessible document. This saves you from fumbling for paperwork looking for hotel addresses or paid-for services, finding the right pages in the heavy guidebooks, trolling souvenir shops for maps...
Top suggestions to include:
• Travel Itineraries
• Rental Car Agreements
• Hotel Reservations
• Park Maps
• Subway and Bus Maps
• Top Restaurant suggestions or OpenTable.com reservations
• Geocache or Geotour Cache pages
• Roadside America or AtlasObscura.com attractions
• Travel Guides
Combine your files into one document. I save mine as a PDF to edit out unwanted sections/pages and add personal comments. Another advantage to saving as a PDF is most mobile devices will display it in its original format and not reformat it to fit your screen.
Then upload to a Cloud service or app to view documents offline on a smartphone or tablet (because sometimes there's no cell service. Shocking, right?) I use a free version of Dropbox, which allows me to securely save my document online and view it in my iPhone and iPad apps, TaGeez's Android, our laptop plus the Kindle Fire.
Did you know that many libraries offer you free access to travel ebooks, and you can save sections of them offline to your own Google account? (Disclaimer: I know because my company supplies the libraries). Also, many popular attractions (including the National Parks) offer downloadable travel guides. That'll save a dollar or two!
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