• Things like your passport, travel itinerary, credit cards and a lot of documents that you take with you when you travel, if you lose them that could be a serious issue.
• One of the things that I like to do is actually make a photocopy or take a picture of those documents with your cell phone, email them to yourself and upload them into a secure place like Dropbox or Google Drive, but definitely check on the compliance and security of your uploading location.
• Upload them at a secure place because if they get lost or stolen while you’re overseas and you need access to those documents, you will always have a copy of them.

It’s Shauna, your correspondent for Without Bags. Today I wanted to talk about my favorite way to protect your important documents. So things like your passport, your travel itinerary, credit cards. There’s a lot of documents that you take with you when you travel and if you lose them that could be a serious issue. So one of the things that I like to do is actually make a photocopy or take a picture of those documents with my cell phone and email them to myself or upload them into a secure … you know probably HIPAA compliant storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, but definitely check on the compliance and security of your uploading location. But scan a copy, take a photocopy, take a picture of those items and email them to yourselves, or upload them, because if they get lost, if you lose your bags, if your purse gets stolen, if your backpack is stolen, whatever it is while you’re overseas and you need access to those documents, you will always have a copy of them … a very, very easy accessibility for yourself.

So that’s our little tip and trick for the day from Without Bags. I would love to hear if you guys have a great idea on how to protect your important documents while you’re overseas. Alright, thanks so much. And talk to you guys next week.