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Eight Travel Safety Lessons We Learned the Hard Way, After Getting Robbed

Only a few days ago, while bicycling around Argentina's wine country, we were robbed [read the full story here]. The banditos only got away with our Nikon DSLR camera, and it could have been much worse, but regardless we've come away with a slew of lessons learned the hard way.

While the "what ifs" stream through our mind, here's eight tips to avoid being a victim:

· Keep moving. Even if you're lost, try to keep moving and look alert (maybe go around the same block) or head towards a busier area to ask at a major business for help with directions.

· Always read about crime and safety considerations when you travel to an unfamiliar city. In this case, we had actually read about the snatchings on WikiTravel, so we knew immediately what was happening as soon as the man surprised us by putting his hands on the camera in our bike basket. Alas, it was because of this warning that we had wound the straps around the handlebars, which prevented him from taking off with our backpack as well.

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From Canada to Chile by Train and by Plane

FAME:
	Say cheese for the 4 most annoying tourist photo poses!
	All aboard our journey by train...in Canada.
	Lower checked bag fees? Yes, please. Also: Get onboard United's first 787...maybe
LAME:
	McDonalds wine. Yes, you read that right.
	Pan Am's Season 1 ends, without a promising future
	How come NY's street art isn't as awesome as Chile's? Also: For Mardi Gras, a Mardi Gras museum closed up shop.

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Robbed While Biking the Argentina Wine Trail: Our Firsthand Account

Policia truck in which we rode

Me robaron. Me robaron. ME ROBARON. I was robbed.

I've gotten very good at saying this in Spanish in the last 20 hours, as yesterday around 3pm local time in the wine tourism town of Maipú, Argentina, a man reached into the basket of the bicycle I was riding, and stole my Nikon DSLR camera. That's the simple way of explaining what went down; the full explanation is far more harrowing, and you can guarantee that I've spent every waking moment since then replaying the events in my mind, wondering how a nice day of biking to vineyards turned into an ordeal involving 17 bulletproof vest-wearing members of the local Policia.

Here we go.

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