I absolutely love traveling.  Trying new foods.  Experiencing different cultures.  Meeting new people.  Trying new foods...wait, did I already say that?  

Traveling for pleasure is easy, especially for the adventurous type, just make some basic plans, do a bit of research and on you go.  Traveling for business...not so much.  Add to this, international travel, particularly multi-country trips and there are a litany of considerations and variables that one must consider.

Take the business trip that I have been on for the past three weeks.  Now don't get me wrong, I am a planner, meticulous and methodical, of OCD-esque proportions, but this trip got me good.  When working abroad, there are so many additional items to consider.  Take charging your laptop for instance.  Back home in the East Village (NYC) coffee shops I frequent for my workshifting needs, charging my laptop is a regular occurrence.  The freedom to "plug in" where ever I damn well please (one that I now feel should be embedded into the Bill of Rights) has become a fundamental element of my workshifting life.  In fact without that "freedom", I wouldn't be able to carry on as a workshifter for longer than a couple hours at a time.  However, in certain countries in Europe I have found the "Plug in for All" freedom has yet to evolve into the consciousness of coffee shop owners.

Charging laptops is just one example of the woes of the international workshifter, there are also electrical converters to consider, Internet access, tethering ability, data access on mobiles.  As you might imagine, I have now meandered into the land of business travel expert by forgetting to consider pretty much all of these variables.

So, in the spirit of community sharing, I thought I might post a video to help any other workshifter planning an international trip so that you might learn from my many, many mistakes.

What other tips do you have for workshifting internationally?  How do you prepare for traveling internationally for work?