Travel Tip - Bring copies

Whenever I travel I like to bring copies of all of my important documents - drivers license, passport, visa's, reservations, and credit card information.  I also keep an electronic copy of all these documents and give photo copies and electronic copies to a member of my family.

When I travel domestically I'm less likely to do this, mostly because I'm lazy.  But, I always do this when I'm traveling internationally.  While I've never had a problem, I like knowing that if I'm away and lose any of this information I can easily access it to make police reports and to obtain new documents.  I like having a variety of ways to get this information too.  If my suitcase gets lost and the photo copies were in there, then I can just go to my email account and print out new copies.

So my tip this week is to have copies of all your important documents.

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Website Recommendation: Visa Stamper

Visa Stamper is a website where you can recreate your passport(s).  It's a fun little site that is still in Beta. 

What you do is set up an account and add in all your stamps from you passport, the website then recreats the pages for you to view online.  You can even add stamps for locations you went to, but didn't get a stamp for.

The site is still in Beta and could use a little work to make it better, such as differentiating between a land and an air entry or adding visas.  But, it does its simple functions well and all the stamps that I have matched the ones that were shown. 

http://visastamper.com/

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