Moving Overseas? Check Your Electronics

We recently traveled to South America and while we were told by a travel agent that the voltage was the same as our home country, we soon discovered the voltage in Peru was higher and the sockets there would not accommodate our standard square-pronged plugs. We spent one full afternoon in Lima hunting down an adapter. While it was a fun adventure that took us all over the capital city, save yourself the time and energy - find out before you move or travel...

Check the voltage and plugs accepted for the area you'll be living in or traveling to before you decide to take expensive and sometimes fragile electronic items with you - your electric toothbrush will be happy that you did.