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Surviving Your Trip Without Data | Good As Gold Presented By American Express

No foreign data while traveling abroad? No problem. From navigating map apps in offline mode, to saving digital copies of your important travel documents, this episode of Good As Gold has you covered. Use these tips from travel vlogger Peter Bragiel (pdrop) to survive abroad when your data doesn’t follow you.

Released on 12/21/2015

Transcript

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The only way I could look more like a tourist

is if I was wearing a fanny pack.

Well, it's too late for me,

but you could still travel good as gold.

So today at American Express studios,

we're showing you a few quick ways

to travel a foreign land without a data plan.

[zipping]

[phone notification ding]

Lots of people think the second you go abroad,

this thing becomes a camera with a clock on it, not true.

There are a bunch of map apps

that lets your phone use its GPS

to figure out where you are.

On Google Maps, just pull up each destination

before you leave and save it.

Two more helpful words, screen shots.

Screen grab everything.

Reservations, boarding passes, even receipts.

Between that and your self maps,

you'll be good as gold wherever the journey takes you.

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See how the Premier Rewards Gold Card can help you

on the journey ahead.

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