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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (161144)	4/20/2002 4:16:17 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

The usual bank charge for travelers checks is 1%, though often banks waive that for US dollar checks if you have the right kind of account. If you do any driving, AAA membership is a terrific deal, I think. For about $160 a year I get road services, free towing up to 100 miles for three people, plus free travel books and maps, free passport photos, and travel services--and, as I mentioned, free travelers checks in all sorts of currencies (American Express checks). When I took the car over a wall in a parking garage in Seattle last summer, the AAA people were there first thing the next morning and got me off, no charge. They arranged for me to have an old car towed away and get a tax deduction to the Kidney Foundation. There are other services that I have never even used. But the idea that my wife can get her car towed to her home-town Saturn agency using a cell phone anywhere in a 100-mile radius at no charge is very comforting. Buy $10,000 in travelers checks and you have already saved most of the yearly fee. You can get an international driver's license through them. Maps of Europe. it just goes on and on.