Travelling should be a time out-time for you, so not always would you want to take your laptop with you. But on the other hand, always keeping you laptop, or at least a phone with you when travelling overseas might avoid a lot of problems. I recently saw a video of a guy who had gone traveling overseas for two weeks, turned his phone out because of the calling charges, he didn't have a travel laptop with him and what was the result? Well, two things. First, he realised his girl was a bitch. Second - he was dumped. See the video below -