One week before

• Add CHECK IN DATE to calendar!
• Buy TRAIN TICKETS if any
  • Remember that I have a BahnCARD !25
  • Plan for contingencies if I’m late
    • Flex ticket or whatever it’s called
  • Is it the CORRECT AIRPORT?
• Check my PLANS for the trip and PEOPLE there
  • Recent birthdays?
  • Planned special occasions?
  • Any appointments HERE when I’m away?
• Check relevant TAGS in taskwarrior
  • +UA, +DE, +s
• Check current CORONAVIRUS rules there and here?
  • Cases DE, Cases UA
  • Current rules:
    • RKI - Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - Informationen zur Ausweisung internationaler Risikogebiete durch das Auswärtige Amt, BMG und BMI
    • Перетин кордону
    • Viaggiare Sicuri
    • COVID-19 IN LITHUANIA: INFORMATION FOR TOURISTS | Lithuania Travel
• Timezones? Target + intermediate points
  • 0: IT=DE=PL (+0)
  • 1: Lithuania=UA=Turkey (+1)
• Any DOCUMENTS for there/back that take time?
• Need to REFILL any prescription medicines?
• Expecting important POST or Packages?
  • If yes, fill and sign form to get them if applicable
• Anything to eat before leaving?

Evening before

• START CHARGING:
  • phone
  • laptop
  • powerbank?
  • fitbit
• CHECK IN
  • Download (or use shiny app for) BOARDING PASS
  • Note WEIGHT/size requirements
    • Lufthansa: Carry-on baggage | Lufthansa
  • Is the AIRPORT correct?
• Entertainment
  • Download podcasts or movies?
  • Papers to read?
• Laptop:
  • git push or backup:
    • Work stuff
    • DTB
    • qs
    • ..dotfiles?
  • CLOSE programs before the battery does
  • Small BACKUP to external drive?

Bureaucracy and documents

• Documents
  • PASSPORT
  • INTERNAL PASSPORT if needed
  • AUFENTHALTSTITEL + Zusatzblatt
    • Valid?
    • B/W copy
  • PROOF OF VACCINATION?
  • BANK CARDS
  • Health insurance
  • BahnCARD
  • Student ID!
  • Anything else needed there or on the way back?
  • LEAVE any unneeded documents
    • Clean wallet
      • Metro/S-Bahn tickets etc.
• SIM cards
  • Take BOX with them
    • $thing to change them inside
  • CHARGE any SIM cards

Practicalities

• KEYS for all potentially needed apts, both directions
  • LEAVE unneeded keys
• Clean:
  • wallet
  • backpack
• MONEY
  • Currency of both countries
  • In hand luggage and packed if any
  • 2x of what I plan to spend
• Last time, what will be needed on the WAY BACK? (Docs/keys/…)

Electronics

• Electronics
  • Laptop
  • MOUSE and the CORRECT (!) USB dongle
  • HEADPHONES
    • In-ear headphones
    • Over-ear ones
      • AUDIO CABLE + “lengthner”?
      • CABLE for charging (microUSB or USB Type C)
  • Bluetooth button thingy
• CHARGERS/cables/…
  • Phone charger
  • Laptop charger
  • Correct headphones charger
  • Fitbit charger IF NEEDED
  • Powerbank IF NEEDED
• DISCONNECT and leave all unnecessary USB dongles and things

Personal

• Toothbrush
  • IF electronic - all needed BRUSHES
  • IF trip is long - CHARGER
• MASKS
  • Some FFP2
  • Standard “OP” (at least one)
• HAND SANITIZER
• MEDICINES
  • The usual PRESCRIPTION stuff
    • HOW LONG will I be away?
  • For the trip:
    • Something agaist NAUSEA
    • Atoxil / Eliminal / Sorbex
    • Painkillers

Trip

• What will be needed on the WAY there?
• What is available / will be / is needed in TARGET?
• Empty (or full) WATER BOTTLE
• Кульки
• Салфетки
  • сухие
  • мокрые
• SLEEP MASK, беруши? Clothing with hood?
• Рассческа
• BOOK
• PEN AND PAPER (or notebook)
• Is any of the food liquid?
• Instant tea/coffee
• Thermoflasche?

Clothes

• WEATHER
  • Check weather at target point:
    • Leipzig,
    • Kyiv,
    • Berlin
    • Rome - BBC Weather
    • weather Vilnius next 5 days - Wolfram|Alpha
  • Take all needed layers
  • If it’s cold - pants are more important than upper body
  • If it’s warm - too-warm-shoes will make life hell
• Polo with BREAST POCKET¹ for passport/docs
• Comfortable shoes
• Belt
• N underwear
• N socks
• Капюшон
• То, в чем быть “дома” - футболка, тапки, …

DEPARTURE CHECKLIST

• LUGGAGE
  • info:
    • Baggage on short-haul flights with LOT | LOT.com
    • Handgepäck | Gepäckbestimmungen | airBaltic
  • WEIGHT within limits
  • Paper with date, flight, contact info
  • Take PICTURES inside, outside
  • Remove stray TAGS
• ROOM clean
  • Take away the TRASH
  • Especially ORGANICS
• Everything turned off
  • WINDOWS closed
  • Electricity off
  • Things disconnected from sockets
  • Water off
• Go last time through stuff that was charging overnight
• Toothbrush
• ESSENTIALS
  • Phone, phone charger, laptop, laptop charger
  • Passport + Aufenthaltstitel
  • CORRECT TICKETS printed or downloaded

Related / references

• https://github.com/jpcaparas/travel-checklist
• TODO: put steps in each group in order of importance

Changelog

• 2022-06-11: added bit about timezones
• 2023-04-03: added list of timezones + LOT luggage rules
• 2023-05-15: added the bits about me now havig a BahnCARD
• 2023-01-03: added the bits about the button thingy, Thermoflasche; removed obsolete items