Nice list, pizzaman.

A passport is definitely important, but I think a driver's license is also a must-have and not an option in your BOB. Perhaps a passport is sufficient for identifying who you are and for fleeing the country, but a license is handy in a couple other situations I can think of.

* Many times, travel back into a disaster area is restricted to residents, and a passport alone will not prove you live in a certain neighborhood. Or how is that National Guardsman with his M-16 pointed at you going to know that you're not a looter (in your own house, even) just by looking at your passport?

* If you need to rent a car, you'll need a license.

* Although a passport is the gold standard in identification, I would say that the driver's license is the de facto standard identification (in the US), from the post office to the check cashing store to the bank. People are just most comfortable with the DL. I remember trying to open a checking account with just a passport one time because I lived in NYC and only had my old California license, and the bank employee looked at it strangely for a moment and also asked if I had a license. I got the account anyway, but it would've been a completely smooth transaction with a DL. Last thing you need after a disaster is more little headaches.

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