Scan all your important documents and email them to yourself with a list of every phone number or other piece of important information you may ever need: insurance policy, flight details, embassies, the lot.
The Goldilocks Pirated wrote: [quote]Scan all your important documents and email them to yourself with a list of every phone number or other piece of important information you may ever need: insurance policy, flight details, embassies, the lot. [/quote]
That’s f’ing brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
because u were thinking of how to get the sheep poodle past customs without the drug sniffing dogs getting the first one in for the evening.
Piss off. As I’ve told you before, sheep aren’t a first choice, or even a bloody second choice. I don’t mind a side dish of lamb if there’s nothing else going, but I prefer human females. It’s unfair to stain a man’s reputation just because he was a horny young lad (over fifteen years ago) feeling lonely up in the hills and had a couple of drunken misadventures.
I once arrived at the airport in Taoyuan, after a five-hour bus ride to get there, without my passport. This became apparent to me when I went to check in and the nice young woman behind the country asked me for it. While my wife and I stood there with our bags ready to be checked in, my passport was tucked away in a drawer in our apartment back in Chiayi.
D’oh!
Earplugs. I never travel without them.
Loretta, I did give a reason why I need an LP, no?
If not LP, I need a map with both English and the local language which can tell me where the local hospitals are and how to get to them. I have had serious allergic shock responses four times. It’s utterly scary for the people around me because I balloon up and go a funny colour, and it’s fairly scary for me (I know what it is) because I can’t breathe and it’s potentially fatal.
While I could search around for self administered emergency meds, I just prefer to be near medical assistance.
Travelling is boring, anyway. Why trail around looking at stuff?
[quote=“Buttercup”]Travelling is boring, anyway. Why trail around looking at stuff?[/quote]BLASPHEMER!
The one thing I always forget is the power adaptor for whatever electronic junk I’m lugging around.
With most of the destinations in SE Asia, there’s no need to drop the 700NT on a LP (ha, ha LP) guide in Taiwan. Just show up at the first city and bum one off of a departing backpacker or pick up a bootleg copy off the street.
‘Travel’ is just another form of decadent, pointless, middle class entertainment. Bread and circuses.
‘Travel’ is just another form of decadent, pointless, middle class entertainment. Bread and circuses.[/quote]
Are you saying that travel is a tool of the elite used to rule the masses?
If you count today’s (British) masses to be the lower middle class white university educated funsters, pretty much.
People create their own bread and circuses in these days of individualism. There is no elite.
Cheese is also decadent. Pointless foodstuff, in modern times.
Air-o-planes pollute.
Buttercup’s a smart girl.
I suggest we take this to another thread, lest we trouble the mods. I’ll start one in open…
TEMP! The strata of the godosaurs
Here’s my checklist, if anyone’s interested. It’s good to make one up and physically check off items before leaving. It’ll save you that ‘God I KNOW I’m forgetting SOMETHING’ feeling. And I can’t say how many times I’ve gotten to some remote beach location and thought, ‘DAMMIT, I forgot my frisbee again!!!’
o passport
o tickets
o APRC
o reservation confirmation printouts
o guidebook
o phrasebook
o something to read
o printout maps
o travelers’ checks
o USD / local currency
o money belt
o fanny pack
o candles & lighter
o flashlight
o compass
o frisbee
o umbrella
o leatherman / utility knife
o ear-plugs
o playing cards
o vibrator, lubricant, condoms (no, not for hookers - I’m married!)
o 110/220 converter, multiple-plug power bar
o camera, batteries, memory card, charger
o speakers, CD player, power cord
o baby powder
o lip gel
o sunscreen
o liquid soap
o toothpaste & brush
o shampoo
o mosquito pads & “platform”
o mosquito repellant
o “Tiger balm”
o Combat ant hotels (for beaches and bungalows)
o diving equipment
o diving license
o sunglasses
o hammock
o straw mat
o slippers / sandals
o swimsuit & towel
o band-aids
o antiseptic spray / cream
o Panedol
o insect bite cream
o eye drops
o proscar
o throat losenges
Back in Bangkok after a few days in Phuket and Koh Phi Phi. I don’t understand what has happened to my European fellow travellers but I was immediately reminded of herds of elephant seals washed up on these fine beaches. Very little interelating with the locals, and far less get up and go than I’ve seen in eons. And when pray tell did it become de rigour to sit around in eateries watching pirate DVDs? I mean, can’t anybody remember the lyrics to “Give peace a chance” or strum a few bars of “Stairway to heaven” anymore?
Mind you the local hosts were rather less than endearing, it has to be said. When did the “fire show” become the national dance? How come I could score but these slack bastards caged joints off me and then had the freakin’ nerve to charge me HK prices for drinks on a mat on a beach?
Interestingly, and much as I have predicted on these pages far earlier, the independent travellers out of China are slowly filling the ranks of the wandering dead. Interesting stuff because thus far they have had to rely on their English as the Thais simply aint ready for them. There has to be a fast buck in this shift.
Actually, I’m coming around to Buttercup’s maxim that there really isn’t much of merit outside of Bangkok. Certainly from the pack of “fire dancing” slackers who creap out at night after packing away their teenage mother brides and collection of motley sprogs to size up the foreign drunk chicks and their relatively fat purses. Sadly in Thailand it really has become a case of “to screw over a foreigner is a patriotic act.”
HG
Always remember, please never forget, that handy pocket style corkscrew tucked neatly into your checked baggage. Nothing worse than travelling all day and night, getting to your destination, buying a bottle of your favorite juice and not having an opener.
Is no one going to say it? Bloody hell, I guess I will.
Vay,
There are a few items you mentioned in your rather impressive list that might just make for some awkward moments at customs.
I refer, of course, to the frisbee and hammock. Isn’t that overpacking just a bit?
Respectfully,
Gao Bo Han