One thing I've considered doing is to sew, say a 100 dollar bill into the bottom of both our packs, or socks, or some other random place. so that no matter what we would always have some emergency cash. Has anyone else ever sewn a hidden stash into their gear???

^I probably shouldn't say this but yeah, under the TravelPunk patch on my pack. I thought about trying to stash the equivalent of 20-40 bucks worth of the local currency under each of them (2000 yen, 20 GBP, 20 Euros, 40 Francs, 40 Zloty etc) but that would seriously eat into my budget so I just went with Euros and Dollars.

--Joey