2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip?
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time?
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand?
5: When did you get your first passport?
My Answers:
1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? Travel Penguin, he spends most of his time in my messenger bag that I always take on the road, and often take into the city.
2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? I had a wheel go bad while rolling bags through Termini in Rome, and bought a replacement the next day so I wouldn't have to drag that bag the rest of the trip.
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? Yes, and a second small bag with a few days of prescription meds.
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? I like landing with enough to take a taxi to the hotel and have lunch, I have Euros, GB pounds, Canadian dollars, and Icelandic kroner.
5: When did you get your first passport? 1990, I was in my early 30's.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? No. Though my wife is frequently with me I have made many solo trips.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? No. Never. What the hell would I want to do that for?
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? No. Not necessary. It takes thirty seconds to put my "kit" together.
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? I have some leftover euros and leftover US dollars.
5: When did you get your first passport? In 1972
1972, you were just a child.
Delete1. Depends on if it's work or personal. And even then it differs. Sometimes solo - sometimes with a colleague or husband or friend or combo of.
ReplyDelete2. No, but considered after a cat pissed in the bag after we reached our destination. I replaced it when I got home.
3. Yes. They reside under my sink in the primary bathroom.
4. No.
5. Yikes. Um....1996?
Cats have a way of letting us know who is in charge.
Delete1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? For the last 26 years it's been Carlos, or else I have traveled alone.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? I have not.
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? I do not.
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? I do not.
5: When did you get your first passport? I was a wee queerling.
Travel early and often.
DeleteNo to the first four questions. I got my first passport about 20 years ago, when the Rare One and I went to Mexico. Before then, I had only ever left Canada to go to the USA and in those days, no passport was needed for that.
ReplyDeleteThe best is yet to come
Delete1. There used to be.
ReplyDelete2. I have a vague memory of having to replace a suitcase once, somewhere.
3. No. I don't travel often enough.
4. No, I buy as needed.
5. In about 1983 we visited New Zealand, my first plane travel. A passport was not needed then, so it would be 1989 when we first visited Thailand.
We bought two new bags on this trip.
DeleteNo to the first 4 questions.
ReplyDelete5. I got my first passport for my trip to China when my middle son got married 14 years ago.
China is a long trip
Delete1. Dave, nowadays, though I also often travel by myself, particularly within England.
ReplyDelete2. No, thank goodness. I did have a bag destroyed by an airline but fortunately it happened on the way home.
3. No.
4. No. I seldom use cash anywhere.
5. In 1984, when I was in college -- which (it turns out) was long before I actually needed it. I was thinking ahead!
Always have a passport ready to go, you never know when opportunity will present itself.
Delete1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? Nope, although there are some people who are not invited.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? No.
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? Yes, although it is debatable whether this is for travel or the "Go Bag" for earthquakes, wildfires, or floods
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? No. In the old days I used to be able to go to the bank downtown and pick up a small amount of local currency to have when I got off the plane.
5: When did you get your first passport? 1967 (Mom liked to travel)
Will Jay
Go bag, is a good concept
DeleteI am glad to read Mr. TP is still working.
ReplyDelete1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? no
2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? no
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? no
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? no
5: When did you get your first passport? I suppose it was in 1989 prior to my first trip to Europe.
My first passport was a rush, I had already booked the airline tickets.
Delete1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? No
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? Yes
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? No
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? Usually some American dollars.
5: When did you get your first passport? I was 18
You started exploring early in life.
DeleteI'm not sure how I missed this yesterday but, here goes.
ReplyDelete1: Is there anyone who always travels with you? No
2: Have you ever replaced luggage in the middle of a trip? No, but I have bought a new piece.
3: Do you keep a travel toiletries kit packed and ready to go all the time? Sort of, it's ready with most things.
4: Do you keep foreign currency on hand? I used to but since the English change out their currency on seemingly a whim, I stopped doing that.
5: When did you get your first passport? 1985
We had some luck exchanging old Pounds for new at a Post Office. Cards have become so ubiquitous that it is less of an issue than it was even ten years ago.
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