9. Do. Your. Research. Again, I’m anxious about everything, so I plan whatever I can. The first thing I did was set up alerts from different discount sites for flights (like Hopper). But I found that the most underrated search engine is actually TikTok. There are a lot of great travel and food accounts that consistently post about flight deals and the best places to eat in whatever city you’re going to. Watching actual videos of people at their favorite restaurants and seeing their go-to dishes is so much more effective than scouring through a restaurant’s outdated website without any pics.