I am getting ready for a trip to Japan so I was doing some research and I read something alarming. Someone wrote an article suggesting when you travel to email yourself your credit card numbers, passport number, and airline information. Their thinking was if you needed them you would only be a computer away from the information.

No, No, No I was shocked. If someone were to hack into your computer they would have your important information. What to do instead:

•Give a friend or relative a copy of your passport.
•Give a friend or relative a copy of your credit cards if you feel you must.
•Carry with you the number to call to report stolen credit cards.
•Use a money belt where you can keep your passport and cards around your waist at all times when you travel.

To be for-warned is to be for-armed. I had over $10,000.00 charged on my credit card and didn’t find out until I was home from Brazil. But because the credit union is insured I didn’t literally lose any of that money or have to pay it back.

Have you ever had anything stolen when you were out of the country? What did you have to do to recover your property or to get out of the country?

Sweet traveling to you.