Traveling can be an exciting and rewarding adventure. One of the rewards of traveling is the creation of fond memories of your trip. However, as traveling can be filled with many unknown factors, doing so successfully, requires a little planning and foresight. This article contains several tips that can help ensure your trip is a success. To make traveling with children easier, make sure to bring plenty of entertainment. Pack coloring books, blank paper, markers and pens so they can color and write. There are a wide variety of travel games available in retail stores. These games are small enough to play on a child's lap, and have pieces that lock into place to prevent messes. If you are traveling a long distance, take an iPod or other portable video player with you and load it with some of your favorite TV shows. Series TV shows usually span several hours, so they can be great forms of escapism for long journeys. Make sure that you charge your portable video player up fully b...