![]() Now, eh Dad?-had packed a five-gallon jug The clothes in our suitcases as well, but The point, like my family did back when I was 11 Or, look at this as the perfect excuse to hit the high-fashion Like a European, having refit your wardrobe Way: If you lose all your luggage, you’ll Cards you can only pick up, of course, onceĭown the identification number of each traveler’sĪnd cross off the used ones. Most credit card issuers delete your old account numberĬards. Not much you can do about reactivating yourĬounts in reporting the loss in order to cut theĪ phone and quickly contact the last hotel,īreak, hang up, call the credit card company, That if they turn up two hours later at the Toll-free numbers in the countries you'll Here’s a cheat sheet (though double-check these numbers first):Ĭredit cards or traveler’s checks: call collect 801/864-6665. Or checks get lost or stolen, contact the phone numbers to report stolenĬards, as well as the numbers of each of your traveler’sĬhecks. Process it all and issue you a new passport, The cover), those passport-size photos you packed, Vital information don’t bother photocopying Of the information pages of your missing passport (that would be the If you lose your passport, go immediately to the Market to replace it! What if you lose your passport? (including the bulk of your cash) in your moneybelt, all you’ve lost is a day’s Where a staffer is likely to have found it-it’sĪdvice (well, OK, my dad's advice) and kept all your important stuff Holding out the wallet, and one asked, “You Russian students came striding across the square The locked doors in dismay after pounding at them When I returnedīack (the thing's up on top of a hill) and lookingĪround wildly. Of travel you leave your purse on an outdoor cafe table and blithelyĪt the gift shop of the cathedral in Krakow, Poland. Sometimes, you just get so caught up with the excitement That, even when you take all the precautions and have all travel smarts,Ī kilometer away, and he can still catch you by surprise.Īnd this one calls for an embarrassing story about Were off and running on what turned out to be one of their Phone calls to cancel his half the cards, and my folks Stuff ( passport, plane tickets, and whatnot) in his own moneybelt, which meant a few quick He had tucked away all his truly important That means he had planned well and Mom had half the bankcards Who, several years ago, had his pocket picked on his very first dayĭad. In a car trunk and then walk away you never know what shady Taught me to empty the rental car every night, and never to put something ![]() Told me to keep my wallet in a front pocket rather than the back soįirst forced me to strap on a moneybelt, the world's most annoying I'd say, of everything I know about travel, I learned one third from my parents, another thirdįound out, painfully, all by my lonesome. The fine art of losing things without losing your mind How to lose things-passports, credit cards, and other important items-while traveling and not have it ruin your vacation ![]()
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