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Emergencies, Money, and Travel Insurance: Be Prepared!

Traveling can be so much fun … until disaster strikes. You get sick. You break your leg skiing. Your pocket gets picked. Then what do you do?

This video will help you manage your money when traveling overseas in the safest, easiest way. We’ll cover how to handle cash, the credit cards with the best benefits for travel, the cheapest way to rent a car while being fully protected,  and more.

It will also help answer the question: do you need travel insurance?

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Allianz Travel Insurance
Chase Sapphire Card
Marriott Bonvoy Amex Card

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Sneaking Around at the International Spy Museum

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to sneak a video in the International Spy Museum. Good luck!

We spent a winter Monday at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. They shut down Bob’s video, but see what you can decipher! It’s a fascinating place and definitely worth a visit. We couldn’t even begin to capture it. Lisa’s favorite room was the one that showed videos about spying. There’s also an interesting exhibit on women in espionage.

Everyone is issued an interactive spy identity card when they enter, which they test their spy skills at seventeen different digital and physical interactive stations spread throughout the museum.

Unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the International Spy Museum charges admission. It’s right by the waterfront, so just a short walk to some interesting eateries.

Check it out!

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Big Bus Tour of DC

When you are traveling with someone without a lot of mobility, a Hop On Hop Off bus tour is the best way to give them an overview of a place. So I took my visiting sister-in-law on a Big Bus Tour of Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve. The tour is definitely overpriced at about $45 a person, but she loved it, and we had a birds-eye view of Washington’s most iconic buildings and monuments from the upper level. She loved it!

Big BusTours has a useful app that lets you follow your bus’s progress on a map, and see where the next bus is if you decide to disembark.

The audio version of the tour — everyone gets free headphones — included a lot of historical tidbits that we both found fascinating. But there are definitely some limitations to a bus. They can’t get as close as you like sometimes, so we saw the graves at Arlington Cemetery from a distance, and couldn’t even see the Potomac River when we passed the Wharf and the Southwest Waterfront. But now we know where to go back and explore!

Here are some of the sights we saw:

Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial
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