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Sep 5th, 2009, 13:24
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Why do you pare down the toothbrush handle? I'm sure it should be obvious but am sleepy and had to ask!
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Sep 5th, 2009, 17:03
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| Structural Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Back in Jolly ol' Blighty!
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Seriously, I find a use for it pretty much every day, even back in England. The scissors are particularly useful, and I like to be able to peel my own fruit. Quote:
Tootbrushes have handles that are far too long for me; maybe because I have small hands, I hold them halfway down the handle anyway, so I figured why not chop off the excess? Besides, it kept catching on things in my bag.
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Sep 5th, 2009, 18:34
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| @ haylo No knickers . bras, clothes.? Are you a naga babu[ette]
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Sep 5th, 2009, 19:37
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Not sure what it says about your dirty mind, that you picked up that I wasn't listing a bra, but totally missed that I wasn't listing a passport!  | |
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Sep 5th, 2009, 19:48
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| Infidel Sufi  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| I have travelled a bit, including to countries that are poorly stocked compared to India. All you really need is Passport Wallet with enough money. Keys (for bag, if applicable) Wife (if applicable) Certificates (if going to work in my case, since can't work without proof of competency and about two dozen other pieces of paper) The rest is available anywhere in some form of the other. (I once took 24 hours to find a shaving kit in the wilderness in Thailand, but that was am isolated occurence, I hope) So now, I just make sure I have these on me when I leave the house. Everything else is non critical. Whenever I have packed with great planning, I have invariably taken along lots of stuff I never used.
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Sep 5th, 2009, 20:14
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| Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: new york city
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| all u need for deodorant is one thai stone (crystal?). just use while still wet from shower, cover 3 times the area you do with regular deo to get all the sweat glands and u are good all day, works on feet too. if u dont put it under warm running water it will last 9 months and is better than deo. u can get axe brand deo there at half price it is in usa |
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Sep 5th, 2009, 20:41
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| PASSPORT............. you cant even fly on Easyjet or Ryanair in UK without one of these. Why on earth should I miss out passport.......... not to mention Visa. My passport is stuffed full of India Visas. How many years have you honed the stuff you travel with to India Enjoy your return trip to Delhi, post monsoon. Do other people know what a 'gas mask bag is'. You must be pre 1939, as all the news here in UK is of all the 'vacuees' being taking from london to the county. Do you still have your label |
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Sep 5th, 2009, 22:25
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It was the bag that US soldiers carried their lightweight gas masks in. This photo of a reasonable reproduction should give people an idea of size. My friends and I were on a historical tour in WWII jeeps; although it was an unofficial tour, we decided that we should do it right and that our clothing and everything else visible should be original WWII US Army issue from our collections. Unfortunately, though WWII jeeps can carry four people each, there is nowhere for luggage, and as it's totally open there's nowhere to lock belongings, so everything has to be carried with you. Another good reason for travelling light!  | ||
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Sep 6th, 2009, 12:42
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| YOUR WIFE! lmao! Did you once forget her? Is that why wife is now a part of the list? Is there more to the story here?Yes, am sure, if one has one of those, it is very, very important. Seriously! hee hee Last edited by CindyIndie; Sep 6th, 2009 at 12:43.. Reason: more to say! |
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Sep 6th, 2009, 13:45
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| Infidel Sufi Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| Nope, never forgot (yet), but this item comes in the pre-emptive category. I may be dumb, but I am not suicidal  |
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Sep 20th, 2009, 11:53
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| Well I am in Uttarkashi. I rode up to Harsil, took a taxi to Gangotri and then yesterday rode back down here to Uttarkashi. Stunning. This thread was very helpful, thanks. I did bring a water filter because I plan on trying to ride up into some of the side valleys and I don't know if there will be water available. I always like having a water filter when riding off the beaten path, running out of water is not fun, nor is giardia, from what I understand. One thing I should have brought more of and that is lean PROTEIN. Climbing these mountains on a diet of mostly starches is not ideal. I have been eating everything I can see, having 5 eggs for breakfast every day and I am still losing weight. So far I have not gotten sick from the food. I asked a local if anyone ever ate the fish from the river and he responded as if I had asked to fricassee his children, so that was a dead end, LOL. It will be worth it regardless but I wish I had known how nutritionally limited the foodstuffs were, I would have brought a bunch of protein powder. |
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Sep 20th, 2009, 18:22
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I'm surprised that if you've been eating "everything you can see" that you haven't been suffering from protein overload from daal though - not being a lover of lentils, and daal being so readily available everywhere I've been in India that I honestly never want to see it ever again! Have you really not been offered any of that protein-packed daal? If you are already eating plenty of daal, you either need to force more carbs down you, or have your weight loss investigated. | ||
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Sep 21st, 2009, 18:34
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I have been eating tons of carbs, and I could load up on more, but that would not stop me from catabolizing my own muscles, it would just add blubber. | |
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Sep 23rd, 2009, 15:07
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| This is my first trip to India. I did the classic GOlden triangle and then Goa for a week for sun and fun. Thinking I would land in the middle of thieving beggar and homeless people, I brought loose crappy pants, some old T-shirts, a $20 Casio watch, and these awful $5 sunglasses that felt like a vice grip on my head. Imagine my surprise when I landed in Delhi, only to see every man in nice pants, pressed long-sleeved shirts, and nice stainless steel watches. The trend continued through Agra (although not as much), Jaipur (industrialized and clean) and Udaipur (gorgeous). So I went through my whole vacation feeling like a dirty bum. Next time I'm bringing my quality Ray Bans, a nice steel watch, and several nice long-sleeved shirts. I would not recommend bummy clothes to anyone unless you plan on trekking in some backwater region or the Himalayas. |
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Oct 4th, 2009, 03:01
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