Taking advantage of the off-season rates, my wife Diane and I spent a couple days at the beach in South Carolina. Such vacations are not for amateurs. Even a short time away from home requires tremendous logistical maneuvering.
You have to drag along enough stuff so that when you get to your destination, you can recreate a reasonable facsimile of your home. Fortunately, Diane is the one who frets over all the weighty issues, like whether or not to take lawn chairs, while my negligible contribution is in the muscle department, lugging things back and forth.
One of the most frequently overlooked vacation skills is the ability to hide things. It starts before you even leave the house. We left a key behind, so that Mike, our neighbor, could come by occasionally to entertain our spoiled cat, who complains for a solid week whenever we leave him alone. We showed Mike the secret hiding place for our house key and he wasn’t very impressed.
I grew up with an open-door policy, so far as the house and car are concerned. This was based on my father’s “we have nothing worth stealing” philosophy and the deeply held belief that a broken window would cost more than anything a thief could possibly take.
But now, we always lock up the house and hide the key. Diane has warned me not to disclose the secret location of our hidden key. All I can tell you is that it is in an extremely clever hiding place.The application can provide landscape oil paintings to visitors,
Once we got to the beach, all I could think about was that scary American Express commercial, showing a thief rifling through people’s belongings. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says that at the beach you should hide your wallet in your shoe, because no one will ever think of looking there, especially if you push it all the way down to the toe. I admit that I have done this. But what other options are there?
Some people use those nerdy plastic pouches that you pin to your swimsuit or wear around your neck. I can’t believe those things are very secure and I doubt that they are completely waterproof. Besides looking dorky, they are not big enough to hold your wallet, the hotel room plastic key card, your cell phone, your Kindle and your car keys. You would need to wear a keg around your neck like a Saint Bernard.
For about $55, you can buy a pair of flip-flops such as the Reef Stash Sandals, that have a secret compartment in the sole, where you can hide small valuables. The assumption here is that a thief would probably think that it was too unsanitary to mess with your flip-flops, even if they were suspiciously thick.
At one point, we went to one of those swim-up bars, which are sort of cool, but present the dilemma of where to keep your money to pay for the drinks. I put some cash in a baggy and kept it under my hat. I don’t know where the people without hats were stashing their money and I’m not sure I want to know.
There is also the issue of where to put your valuables when you leave the hotel room. The usual sock drawer or under the mattress are ill-advised. I hate to give the impression that I’m paranoid or that I don’t trust the housekeeping staff, but hotel rooms are notoriously insecure, given all the passkeys floating around, sliding glass doors and those unreliable card keys.
We decided to use the in-room safe, although some people advise against this as well. Ours was one of those electronic ones, which you lock by entering a four-digit code and then later open using the same code.
I read on a couple of travel blogs that all these safes have a master override code that the management can use to open it in case you forget your code. It was claimed that some hotels leave “0000” or “1234” as the override code. After reading this, I checked out our safe but neither of these codes would open it. Your valuables are only as secure as the secrecy of the override code.
Some people use the office hotel safe, signing things in and out, while others opt for those containers that look like familiar products,An magic cube of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. but have built-in secret compartments. Former detective Sgt. Kevin Coffey from Corporate Travel Safety refers to these as “diversion safes.”
These devices are designed to look just like real items, such as popular soft drink cans, wall clocks,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a zentai suits . dog food cans, salt containers, water bottles,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach.As many processors back away from third party merchant account , vegetable cans, shaving cream cans and even athlete’s foot spray. I think you need to be selective, however. A bogus Coke can among several others in a refrigerator might work fine, but a single can of creamed corn in your hotel room might elicit some suspicion.
You have to drag along enough stuff so that when you get to your destination, you can recreate a reasonable facsimile of your home. Fortunately, Diane is the one who frets over all the weighty issues, like whether or not to take lawn chairs, while my negligible contribution is in the muscle department, lugging things back and forth.
One of the most frequently overlooked vacation skills is the ability to hide things. It starts before you even leave the house. We left a key behind, so that Mike, our neighbor, could come by occasionally to entertain our spoiled cat, who complains for a solid week whenever we leave him alone. We showed Mike the secret hiding place for our house key and he wasn’t very impressed.
I grew up with an open-door policy, so far as the house and car are concerned. This was based on my father’s “we have nothing worth stealing” philosophy and the deeply held belief that a broken window would cost more than anything a thief could possibly take.
But now, we always lock up the house and hide the key. Diane has warned me not to disclose the secret location of our hidden key. All I can tell you is that it is in an extremely clever hiding place.The application can provide landscape oil paintings to visitors,
Once we got to the beach, all I could think about was that scary American Express commercial, showing a thief rifling through people’s belongings. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says that at the beach you should hide your wallet in your shoe, because no one will ever think of looking there, especially if you push it all the way down to the toe. I admit that I have done this. But what other options are there?
Some people use those nerdy plastic pouches that you pin to your swimsuit or wear around your neck. I can’t believe those things are very secure and I doubt that they are completely waterproof. Besides looking dorky, they are not big enough to hold your wallet, the hotel room plastic key card, your cell phone, your Kindle and your car keys. You would need to wear a keg around your neck like a Saint Bernard.
For about $55, you can buy a pair of flip-flops such as the Reef Stash Sandals, that have a secret compartment in the sole, where you can hide small valuables. The assumption here is that a thief would probably think that it was too unsanitary to mess with your flip-flops, even if they were suspiciously thick.
At one point, we went to one of those swim-up bars, which are sort of cool, but present the dilemma of where to keep your money to pay for the drinks. I put some cash in a baggy and kept it under my hat. I don’t know where the people without hats were stashing their money and I’m not sure I want to know.
There is also the issue of where to put your valuables when you leave the hotel room. The usual sock drawer or under the mattress are ill-advised. I hate to give the impression that I’m paranoid or that I don’t trust the housekeeping staff, but hotel rooms are notoriously insecure, given all the passkeys floating around, sliding glass doors and those unreliable card keys.
We decided to use the in-room safe, although some people advise against this as well. Ours was one of those electronic ones, which you lock by entering a four-digit code and then later open using the same code.
I read on a couple of travel blogs that all these safes have a master override code that the management can use to open it in case you forget your code. It was claimed that some hotels leave “0000” or “1234” as the override code. After reading this, I checked out our safe but neither of these codes would open it. Your valuables are only as secure as the secrecy of the override code.
Some people use the office hotel safe, signing things in and out, while others opt for those containers that look like familiar products,An magic cube of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. but have built-in secret compartments. Former detective Sgt. Kevin Coffey from Corporate Travel Safety refers to these as “diversion safes.”
These devices are designed to look just like real items, such as popular soft drink cans, wall clocks,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a zentai suits . dog food cans, salt containers, water bottles,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach.As many processors back away from third party merchant account , vegetable cans, shaving cream cans and even athlete’s foot spray. I think you need to be selective, however. A bogus Coke can among several others in a refrigerator might work fine, but a single can of creamed corn in your hotel room might elicit some suspicion.
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