make sure your credit card company knows you're away so they don't cancel your card. I'd been away for 6 months when they cancelled both of mine at the same time as the bank decided to re-issue my connect card - leaving me with USD travelers cheques for which the exchange rate is useless.
take euros, not dollars!
think about splitting your stash and, even, having a spoof wallet with daily cash and keeping your other cash elsewhere. the thing about this is that the spoof wallet must be credible to a thief and yet affordable for you. I had an out of date credit card and other "goodies" in my spoof wallet. I never handed it over - cos I'm stubborn! - but thieves did target my spoof wallet not realising how little they'd have really got.
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