If you are traveling on business, you can probably take two suits and rotate between them. Try to take different colors of shirts/blouses; mixing and matching might fool people into thinking you brought more clothes than you did. So you must think before deciding on how many pairs of clothes you want to take or what kind of clothes, be it Ninja Gear or Swimwear!

If you are going on an extended trip, pick one color and stick with it. If you are part of Generation X, rejoice, as black travels very well. You can get horse slobber all over your black jeans, and as long as nobody stands too close, you’ll look fine.

Plan on inclement weather. It will happen, and everybody there will say, “Oh, it almost never rains/snows/hails/blows/floods like this! This is very unusual weather.” In particular, be prepared for it being colder than you expect. A polypropelene shirt is a wonderful thing to take traveling with you: it is light, very warm (even when wet), and dries quickly. Packing a Gore-Tex shell is another good way to save a vacation; Gore-Tex rain pants wouldn’t hurt.