Quote: "Please note that docs and pharmacies in the US cannot honor foreign written prescriptions but in a pinch, it's better than having nothing at all."

This is a bit of a worry - we'll have a hire car at times and there's no way we'll wander around a little town carrying all our medication (my husband has heart medication). It will be in our cases in the car. If the car gets stolen we're without medication as prescriptions can't be filled? Do we have to go to all the trouble of finding a doctor and get all new prescriptions and then get them filled at a chemist, claim all the costs on travel insurance? What a rigmarole that would be! Not that anyone will probably steal our car but I always like to go with the 'what if' factor. I suppose the prescriptions we carry will be considered documentation that we actually need the medication.

Great idea about the glasses, I'll carry notes from our optometrist but also a back up pair in the checked luggage.