Documents to carry while travelling

Pauldot58 · Newbie

Documents to carry while travelling

Tony Bev · Guru

Hello Pauldot58

May I be one of the first to welcome you to this great forum

As I only travel part time here is what I carry, in paper form

Drivers License
Plastic money card
Copy of vehicle insurance
Some cash, in case some smaller places do not have means to take plastic card money

Hope this info is useful to you

ballast2 · Guru

G'day Pauldot58. Welcome from us as well.

Every thing Tony said as well as

Doctors letter from your GP if on any medications or treatments.

Pets vaccination record if travelling with pets.

I personally prefer paper copies of everything.

If you are on Ehealth (I think that's what it is called ) do not rely on it. I have found a lot of Doctors do not use it.

Others may have more to add.

Enjoy your travels.

Cheers.

Craig1 · Guru

hope this works, should print as a fold up, same size as a credit card

-- Edited by Craig1 on Wednesday 7th of December 2016 08:56:23 PM

ballast2 · Guru

G'day Craig1. I got nothing except text

Cheers.

Craig1 · Guru

technology challenged, tried twice now. It is a small fold up card from Flying Doctor Service which you can fill in with Dr, etc etc, includes space for current medications, phone numbers etc. Nothing worse than trying to remember them all when in a waiting room away from home. Hope that is enough info. cheers.**** Now looks ok, will print as a double side if you are careful with printer and can write fairly small.

-- Edited by Craig1 on Wednesday 7th of December 2016 09:07:28 PM

villatranquilla · Guru

another good tip is to write 'due' dates on a calendar for things like rego , insurances, rates etc. I also have a list of the various passwords for the computer. And yes as ballast2 has said 'Ehealth' cannot be relied upon.
We have also arranged for any re-newels or bills to be emailed. Most companies will do this. By registering for 'mygov' access to gov. services such as Medicare and Centrelink are relatively easy.

Bill B · Guru

Also keep a copy of all documents, licences & cards so that if you are unfortunate enough to lose them/have them stolen etc you have the relevant details to stop them etc.

Pauldot58 · Newbie

Thanks for the advice everyone.

macka17 · Guru

Apart from actual licences etc.
On a chip I have copies of medical. drugs\prescriptions. Veh ins van ins, cat ins,
driving licences and rego\insurance papers. Pension cards etc

Plus all relavant Ph no's and names..
and for last 40 yrs. EVERYTHING I have to renew annually.
is on monthly Automatic payments.

NEVER run out of date. and only cost a little extra.
With a NON memory like mine. You have to do something like that.

Possum3 · Guru

Don't forget your passport - If travelling to Hutt River Provence.

chappy · Senior Member

I now have photos on my phone of all the documents I take paper copies off. Also in my phone I make sure my children are in the favourites or ICE ( in case of emergency) catergories. So I don't need to have all these things with me but are accessible on my phone.

JayDee · Guru

I concur with every comment. However, perhaps most import is to have your mail redirected to a family member or a selected relative, or close friend.

Then when you know that you are going to be in a specific town for a few days, arrange for mail to be forwarded via express mail envelope. We purchase the envelopes and then give them to our son to then forward mail :- C/- Post Office in the town we nominate.

Don't forget to leave contact details with family and friends just in case of an issue at your home address.

Where possible organise a direct debit on such things as Electricity A/c, rates notice etc etc.

We also leave a spare set of keys with our son so he can occasional check our home for us.

If you have a second car at home, again family can take same for a run every now and then.

We disconnect one terminal and leave a spanner for son to reconnect same.

We also let our bank know that we are travelling.

I think, no sure, but if you are receiving any support from Centrelink, I think they need to be advised also.

The list can go on and on.

Hope these few clues help you

-- Edited by JayDee on Wednesday 21st of December 2016 11:40:21 AM

brickies · Guru

Email documents to yourself which allows you to recover them where ever you are , I had a break in recently in our home and our laptop computer was stolen the Queensland Police put us in touch with IDcare who work though everything with us , Their big thing was never download documents to your computer Eg passport, licence ,birth anything that can be use to take you ID .

Dickodownunder · Guru

macka17 wrote:

Plus all relavant Ph no's and names..
and for last 40 yrs. EVERYTHING I have to renew annually.
is on monthly Automatic payments.

Wow...40 years ago...

Wished I had known you could do that back then. Lol.

Good onya Macka

Doo in · Member

Don't know how long your Big Lap is going to take use, But

we also took our passports ....when we got to Darwin we flew over

to Bali or where ever and had 10 days resting up and came back

and resumed our trip.....Alot of travelers we meet on the road

said what a great idea.. Hope it helps.

in transit · Senior Member

We also take invoices for products in the van that are still under warranty.

JeffRae · Guru

"Their big thing was never download documents to your computer Eg passport, licence ,birth anything that can be use to take you ID ."

Thanks brickies. Checking everything now and will password protect if we need too

Lamb Chop · Veteran Member

I will throw in some ideas. Keep a spare set of van keys in the car and a spare set of car keys in the van. We carry copies of car and van insurance and rego papers, licences, home and contents insurance, prescriptions, all plastic cards.

We use to carry around a ton of keys. Now we carry two keys for the van, front boot and main door. All the other keys are labelled and mounted on hooks in the front boot. We got into the habit of using a key then putting it back, that way you do not forget returning keys to their rightful place.

hako · Guru

brickies wrote:
Email documents to yourself which allows you to recover them where ever you are , I had a break in recently in our home and our laptop computer was stolen the Queensland Police put us in touch with IDcare who work though everything with us , Their big thing was never download documents to your computer Eg passport, licence ,birth anything that can be use to take you ID .

G'Day brickies - re emailing documents to yourself which you can open if needed.....if you do this from your laptop won't they still be in your "sent mail" file to view or do you have everything password protected so that if the laptop is stolen cannot be turned on?

Thanks

brickies · Guru

Do a search for IDcare and contact them they will email you all the info great people .They were recommended to me by the Queensland Police after my laptop was stolen it is a free service .

the rocket · Guru

Hi pauldot58, carry licence but put all documents n receipts on computer

Mike Harding · Guru

1 - Scan all important documents and/or certified copies

2 - Go here and download Axcrypt: https://www.axcrypt.net/download/

3 - "Zip" your documents into a file/files

4 - Using Axcrypt encrypt the zip file(s) using a long but easily memorable password

eg. %MyMothersNameWasMarySmith%

5 - Put the documents on:

a: memory stick

b: Dropbox

c: Both

Incidentally, the above is a very strong password which would take centuries to crack but, please, don't call the zipped file "Important documents" or the like call it, say, "Family photographs".

JeffRae · Guru

Mike Harding

Do you use the free or premium version ?

Mike Harding · Guru

I have been using the free version of Axcrypt for about ten years, there is very little, if any, advantage for the average user in the paid version.

Hylife · Guru

Why pay? The ability to create zip files has been built into Windows since 7 and with an irrelevant name and a simple extension change, to a casual observer it is as good as a password.

Right click a blank area and choose new --> compressed folder and give it a name.

Windows handles zip files just like a normal folder except they have a 3 letter extension just like files.
If you don't see the extension then you have that turned off. Google "turn on file extensions for Windows X" (where X is your version of windows).

copy and paste or drag n drop or whatever you find easier, your files to the zip file.

When you are done just rename the extension from .zip to .txt
Your file holiday.zip becomes holiday.txt

Windows opens .txt (text) files in Notepad and the contents will be gobbledygook hieroglyphics to notepad.

Just rename the .txt back to .zip when you want to access the files.

hokianga · Senior Member

Hi, good luck with your travels- if you have a pet with you don't forget a copy of their vaccination certificate and keep microchip details up to date. Happy travels.

Lamb Chop · Veteran Member

A good old fashion paper diary is good too.