THANK YOU, SARAH PALIN. Well, not Sarah Palin exactly, but somone who lives in her home town of Wasilla. During my recent vacation there, I used my card at a local bank's walk-up ATM to get cash and apparently left the card behind. When I discovered the loss a couple of hours later and called to report the card as lost, I was told that the card had already been found, reported as missing by the person who found it, and my replacement card would be mailed the next day. It was waiting when I arrived back home two days later.

If that had happened in Washington, DC, the card would have been found, sold, and used long before I discovered it missing.

Thanks, Alaska. I look forward to coming back.