MUST BE MY LUCK: Riots and Protests where we've gone!!

[ChunkyMonkey]

A couple credit cards, couple hundred in cash, mixed between local and US, passport, and cell phone with the number for the US embassy saved. Know where you are and how to get to the big airport and the embassy from where ever you may be. I try to talk to the RSO at the embassy before getting to the country, but sometimes just end up playing phone tag to make sure they have my name and contact information.

If it is for work, there are op plans and schedules, so I am usually working by somebody else's plans. Still try to know how to get to the airport and embassy from where ever you are.

When all else fails, know how to barricade a room and hang on for the cavalry. Click your heels three times and keep saying to yourself; There's no place like home, There's no place like home...

Could you provide us a schedule Ken so we can all avoid your itinerary?

HA! Yeah, I actually have collection of US embassy or consulates' pictures from whereever we've gone..as we actually physicallly find them if we stays longer than few days. After 97 Jakarta Riot and evac, that seems to be the minimum one must do. You are not kidding on the riot magnet part. We are going to Israel then Indonesia this fall - if you see something on the news..that's probably us again.

[cstone]

Jerusalem and Jakarta, check, they are now off the list.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Jerusalem and Jakarta, check, they are now off the list.

Hahahaha


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[zteknik]

Don't travel outside the U.S. anymore, but when I did it was on Uncle Sugars orders and we were being deployed.
Although when I was stationed in Germany and traveled Europe then I always carried a small bob with a first aid kit to include nitrile gloves.
No weapons only my trusty Gerber multi tool. They tend to frown upon firearms stuffed in ones bag without the proper permits, which could be next to impossible to get for a foreigner.

[Doc45]

Basically already covered with the addition of extra Rx for my meds. When my younger son went to Israel as a teen the tour operator accidentally froze his insulin (the staff was responsible for holding any meds). He had a copy of his rx, got a replacement very quickly.

I also carry spare eyeglasses. I use a small backpack as my carry bag, keep my passport/i.d. on my person.

[TFOGGER]

If you are traveling to places like Barcelona, you need to have a copy of everything important in your wallet AND you need to fully expect to be pick-pocketed. Never let your hand leave your wallet or put it somewhere where they'd never look - e.g. your sweaty ass crack . It's literally that bad, more likely than not you will lose your wallet.

This is what happens when CJ systems provide wrist slaps and the public is disarmed.

I prefer a front pants pocket, with a dirty sock stuffed in on top...

[BushMasterBoy]

embassy pen, kevlar gloves, ballistic shooting glasses, goretex lined watch cap


https://countycomm.com/products/stai...assy-pen-rev-2

[wctriumph]

When I traveled I had a Boy Scout three blade knife (2" blade, awl, bottle/can opener) in my checked baggage that I carried in my pocket once baggage was retrieved, I carried my passport and $500 in Amex travelers checks in a plastic holder worn around my neck under my shirt. I always had a small amount of first aid stuff (bandaids, ointment) in my carry on computer case and antihistamine, face mask, pain killers, sewing kit, elastic bandage, etc.. in my checked bags.

Never had to use any of it. Now I keep a three day survival kit for two in the truck with blankets and a change of clothes.

[hatidua]

N95 type dust mask.
Kendall 1" waterproof tape
Gauze
Advil
Aspirin
Bonine
Leatherman Micra
Passport card (the one that looks like a drivers license, costs $10 on top of the passport fee - only good for land crossings but contains all pertinent info)
Xerox of all documents kept separate from documents
Amex/Visa/Mastercard
U.S. dollars in uncirculated condition (yeah, condition matters a LOT in some countries)

Above and beyond that, very downmarket looking luggage and clothing. If you want to make yourself a target, get that Louis Vuitton luggage set and as much rap-inspired bling as you can, tell the mugger hello.

[Great-Kazoo]

For everyone who has or recommends a N95. How many know how to fit it properly? Long facial hair is a no go, i suggest a small electric razor in the same bag. One can have a short goatee or mustache, however full on beard, long goatee, that N95 is a placebo.