https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?m=201902<\/a><\/p>\nYesterday’s experience was high drama .. one of the more intense dramas I have ever been through in my international travel.<\/p>\n
Rhetorical Question : What is the most important thing not to lose : Your Passport or your money.<\/p>\n
In terms of International travel, there can be no question that not losing one’s passport is at \/ or near the very top of the ‘list of important items’ totem pole.<\/p>\n
BUT you can (and I certainly do) carry xerox copies of your passport so you will be able to at least show authorities that (should you lose it) you did have one.<\/p>\n
Of course yesterday my passport was not an issue. The issue was the fact two of my wallets were suddenly missing after I passed through security and was at our boarding gate.<\/p>\n
If you have money, you can ‘buy’ time to sort out a lost passport because you have the money to pay to stay in a hotel or elsewhere and you have money to return home when your lost \/ missing passport issue is sorted out.<\/p>\n
Money?<\/p>\n
I shudder to think of being outside of the U.S. with no money.<\/p>\n
IF you lose access to money while traveling abroad you are in serious trouble. In my opinion, having money is alone at the top of the list of ‘most important items’.<\/p>\n
Here is my solution to this issue of having no money.<\/p>\n
I carry four (4 count them) wallets when I am out of the country. Each is a complete entity in and of itself. In theory all I need on any trip is one of them. Only in my living area or when I am physically traveling are the four of them ever together at the same time.\u00a0Each have a copy of my passport. Each have other forms of identification (U.S. driver’s license, U.S. State I.D. Card, U.S. voter’s card, etc). Each have cash (local money and U.S. money). Each have proven credit cards that are accepted internationally. Each have an ATM cash withdrawal card that is proven to be acceptable.<\/p>\n
The most upsetting thing was the concept that here I am out of the country and having no real way to deal with the possible theft of credit \/ ATM cards. Also to suddenly have lost 50% of my ability to get money (ATMs) and to purchase with credit cards literally everything that I need from flight \/ train \/ bus tickets to hotel rooms to restaurant meals and groceries to _______________ you name it.<\/p>\n
Do I really think my wheel chair attendant was part of the mystery? No. It WAS odd that four of us did not find the two missing wallets in my small back pack and miraculously she walked up and voila! “Are these them?” she said having herself just reached into one of the compartments in my backpack.<\/p>\n
Voila! She saved our day!!<\/p>\n
Did I learn anything here? It’s hard to say. This has never happened to me before in my international travels dating back to the mid-1970’s when I lived in Europe for four years. What would \/ will I do differently in the future? Try not to wait until I am at my boarding gate to discover that something is missing?<\/p>\n
Still mulling over this.<\/p>\n
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