Bed bugs....

are a travel nightmare. 

(pic from championexterminators.com)

Bed bugs are easy to transport in luggage and very hard to get rid of. Also, you can't tell whether a building or hotel room has them based on cleanliness - the bugs can thrive anywhere there are cracks and crevices to hide in.  And it seems that these pests are spreading extremely quickly across several American and Canadian cities. Which makes me a little apprehensive when traveling - and we travel quite a bit..... 

Which is why I was happy to find there is a bedbug registry - a free, public database of bedbug infestations in the United States and Canada. (http://bedbugregistry.com/). You can enter your travel destination to find out whether your hotel is bed bug free. 

Never want to run into those suckers....