Most places to eat have automatic dishwashers, so money is important. Taking enough and keeping it seem like helpful ideas.
How Much
- Expected trip expenses
- Food (grocery, cafe, restaurant)
- Camp (wild, parks, with locals, campground, resort campground)
- Admissions (events and sight seeing)
- Transportation to and from
- Lodging, if bad weather, illness, or equipment failure
- Emergency food or parts
- Call for help
- Get home, if the way you came is no longer available or appropriate
Forms
- Coins - laundry, coin toilets, phones (quarters)
- Cash - cash to show, cash to hide
- Credit or debit card - for larger and/or unexpected items
- Travelers checks - no longer widely accepted
- Kent cigarettes - if you are crossing the border into Romania
Hiding Places
- behind stiffeners of panniers
- in film cannister
- inside handlebars
- inside seatpost
- under seat
- with tools
- inside part with batteries
- inside tire
- inside clothes (laundry-proof?)
- foot of sleeping bag