from North Carolina

Dear Fellow Pilgrims - I very much look forward to meeting us all and traveling together. My first post on this blog is a tip -

I learned that it is a good idea to give a Travel Notification to your credit card company. Apparently, in their look-out-for-fraud zeal, they have rendered cards useless after a few purchases or cash withdrawals. Might as well be skillful pilgrims.

With metta, esp. to Haiti - Jeanne van Gemert