Originally Posted by wallypiper

to windi. Schengen is great stuff. But traveling through Schengen countries doesn't qualify as international any more. Common currency. No visas required or even a passport in some locations. But I'm jealous of you for riding across the border and back for lunch. I can't even do that from the US to Canada or Mexico any more without my passport. I now carry my passport all the time when I travel, just in case I need to leave the US before I get home. Back in 2004 I did a moto trip with some buds from Germany to Austria, then Italy, then Switzerland and back to Germany (had France planned but decided to skip it because the roads weren't special and the weather wasn't great). I don't recall showing my passport to anybody except maybe crossing Umbrail from Italy to Switzerland. Not sure. Very foggy up there that day. Maybe he just looked at us to see if we were nuts.