I realize I am not the most well traveled of your whole f-list but I do consider myself relatively well traveled. I think i am at 20 countries and 4 continents including living abroad doing foreign aid work after college.
I always, always register with the state dept. Part of it is based on a scary experience in a war torn country during that living abroad period but the other bit has more to do with the people who are not me. Often if you are abroad when a disaster strikes the state dept may be the only way your family is getting information on you.
It is a personal preference I suppose and I personally would not be any more worried about going to Europe (way more crime against tourists in Europe than most of the places we drag our kid that the average American considers unsafe...sigh..)than normal but I always register.
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Date: 2010-10-03 10:15 pm (UTC)I always, always register with the state dept. Part of it is based on a scary experience in a war torn country during that living abroad period but the other bit has more to do with the people who are not me. Often if you are abroad when a disaster strikes the state dept may be the only way your family is getting information on you.
It is a personal preference I suppose and I personally would not be any more worried about going to Europe (way more crime against tourists in Europe than most of the places we drag our kid that the average American considers unsafe...sigh..)than normal but I always register.
And ramble. I always do that too.