My wife, Ann, and I have traveled to more than 100 countries. For the first 90 of those countries we took pictures with film, keeping records of where we were, the number of each roll of film, the date, etc. Upon our return home from each trip, we developed an album, complete with written narrative in the margins, so we could go back and review the trip years later.

There were always unused photos and, of course, negatives, which we put in a box along with maps and other information...

My wife and I obtained a new Bank of America ATM card in early 2015. We had one before and traveled all over the world with it and never had any problems. Unfortunately, on our July 2015 trip to France we were unable to get any money from six different bank ATMs that we tried to use. I made two lengthy overseas calls to Bank of America in the US, reaching both their customer service and fraud personnel, neither of whom on both calls could find any reason for our difficulties. They said that...

In August 2015, I flew to East Africa on a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 in business class. Here are a few comparisons of that flight with my flight to South Africa on Delta Air Lines in August 2014, also in business class on a Boeing 777. With Qatar Airways, I flew from New York’s JFK, with a one-night layover in Doha, Qatar, and a stop in Entebbe, Uganda, before the final stop in Kigali, Rwanda. My return was from Kilimanjaro, Kenya, to New York’s La Guardia, with a stopover in Zanzibar and an...