I’ve been missing my Tefillin so I thought I’d post this story about how I won a raffle for $1,200 worth of Tefillin. Got the smallest Tefillin made. How I lost them in Guatemala and how they miraculously reappeared. Read the full story:
http://travelingrabbi.com/2007/12/20/lost-tefillin-in-guatemala/

On chol hamoed my custom is not to put on Tefillin. Some people do and some don’t. If one has the custom to put on Tefillin on chol hamoed and has traveled to a community where the custom is not to put on Tefillin on chol hamoed, he should put on his tefillin in private usually by praying on the women’s side if there are no women in the Shul