• Buy multiples of travel sizes of toothpaste, shaving cream, and stock at home for replenishing.
• Lighten your load of shampoo/conditioner/soap. If
you're booked in a hotel that doesn't supply these, fire your travel agent.

One road essential: "Preprinted address labels for my nieces, nephew, and godchildren so I can dash off postcards between flights."

Planes, ferry, and funicular: "I measure the difficulty of a trip by what I call the 'Three Dog Factor' (named for the number of dogs one needed to keep warm on a cold Alaska night during the Gold Rush). The 'Three Dog Factor' is the number of different vehicles needed on one day. My worst? Capri to Munich last October. One: baggage cart from hotel to funicular (mountain railway). Two/Three: funicular to dock via taxi. Four: ferry to the other side. Five: bus to airport. Six/Seven: plane to Rome, another to Munich via airport bus. Eight: train into city. Nine: bus to hotel."


JIM PARRIE
Winner, Professional Specialties/Consulting Category
President
Millennial Technologies International
Age: 41
Headquarters: Eunice, Louisiana
Travel route: Worldwide, frequently southeast Asia and Europe
AAdvantage miles logged in 2000: 49,542

Jim Parrie's wife, Sheila, calls him the prototypical Type A personality. Driven and passionate, he can speak in depth on a broad range of subjects, from education (he is studying theology) to sports cars. His company started out advising manufacturers of custom picture frames, and it's grown into an international concern that helps companies of all stripes - often in remote, underdeveloped locations - polish their marketing skills and streamline production processes. He's definitely a Type A traveler: His air mileage tripled from 2000 to 2001, to 162,745.

On being a Road Warrior: "I fly every month, a lot of domestic, but I fly overseas every month. I carry a complete office - global cellular phone, two laptops with cellular modems, digital cameras. Anyplace we travel, we can tap into our network. I travel a lot to Third World countries where there's no electricity, no phone lines - you have to have the ability to be totally mobile, totally portable, and we do that."

Passions: "My goal is to help people in Third World countries add value to what they do so their economies can come up, to provide food for people, and technology, and teach them how to read so they can get out of these below- minimum-wage jobs."