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  • Returning Home After Your Overseas Holiday – What to Expect
    Your wonderful vacation is over and it is time to return home. You need to plan for your return trip home just as you planned at the beginning of your holiday.
  • Overseas Driver's License & Auto Insurance
    If you intend to drive overseas, check with the embassy or consulate of the countries where you will visit to learn about requirements for driver's license, road permits, and auto insurance. If possible, obtain road maps of the countries that you plan to visit before you go.
  • Staying Healthy During Your Trip
    No one wants to spend their vacation sick in their hotel room or worse – in a hospital. Some things can’t be avoided – but most can. A little preventive planning can make your vacation safe and keep you on the beach instead of in the doctor’s office.Take some precautions and make your holiday safe and disease-free.
  • How to Bring Money to a Foreign Country
    Going to an overseas country presents a currency challenge. Carrying a calculator helps, but more importantly, prior planning is more important. You choices - cash, credit cards, debit cards, local currency, and traveler's checks all present different kinds of problems and solutions.
  • Legal Tips When Traveling Overseas
    The very first thing you have to remember is that you are a guest in a foreign country and you are subject to their rules and regulations. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. You need to do some homework and find out what the laws of the country you are visiting are so that you stay out of trouble and have an enjoyable vacation.
  • Going Overseas? Protect Your Passport
    Your passport is the most valuable document that you will carry abroad. It confirms your U.S. citizenship. Please guard it carefully. Do not use it as collateral for a loan or lend it to anyone. It is your best form of identification. You will need it when you pick up mail or check into hotels, embassies or consulates.
  • Don’t let a Drug Arrest Ruin You Vacation
    About 3,000 Americans are arrested abroad each year. Of these, approximately one-third are held on drug charges. Despite repeated warnings, drug arrests and convictions are still a common occurrence.
  • What U.S. Consuls Can Do To Help You
    U.S. consular officers are located at U.S. embassies and consulates in most countries overseas. They are available to advise and help you, if you are in any serious trouble.
  • Plan Your Return Before You Go
    Most people are so excited about going on their vacation that they forget to plan their. This can take almost as much effort as the initial holiday plan. But, it is better to think about your return before you leave your home. Here are some tips.
  • Safe Travels: Top Ten Passport Tips
    Are you planning a trip overseas? Do you have your passport? You will need it to enter foreign countries – so here are some tips to make your passport experience easier.
  • Things to Arrange Before You Travel Overseas
    No one expects anything to happen while on a 2 or 3 week vacation – but you really should make some preparations – just in case.
  • What to Learn About Before You Go to a Foreign Country
    Before you go to a foreign country, you should do your homework. There is no excuse for not knowing with all of the information available on the Internet. Embassy and consulate information, along with web sites for your holiday country are readily available. Most sites will also have forum with local residents and tourists providing current information and available to answer your questions.
  • Tis the Season to Travel
    With Christmas and New Years right around the corner, many people will be traveling to visit family and friends. And many will take to the air to return home for Christmas dinner and New Year Eve celebrations. Many of these people will be first time flyers and should do a little homework before taking that first flight. Different countries and different airports/airlines have different rules – so check before you fly.
  • Common Sense Travel Tips
    Flying is a routine activity for millions of Americans, and raises no health considerations for the great majority of them. However, there are certain things you can do to ensure that your flight is as comfortable as possible.
  • Safe Travel - What to Bring – 10 Tips
    Travel today can be confusing with rules and regulations changing on a regular basis. Last year I could bring a bottle of water but no lighter. This year it is the opposite. Zippo lighters are OK but no bottled water – go figure. Sometimes the rules vary by country – so check, check, check.
  • Top Twelve Travel Tips for Students
    If you are a student planning a trip overseas, here are some tips to help you with your trip. This list is not all inclusive, but it should give you a good start to a safe and enjoyable trip abroad.
  • Some Travel Tips for Students
    Planning a vacation in a faraway land? Received a job offer to teach in Asia? Although most trips abroad are trouble free, being prepared will go a long way to avoiding the possibility of serious trouble.
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