Comments on: My Long-Term Travel Packing List https://www.passportdelicious.com/my-long-term-travel-packing-list/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 02:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Krista https://www.passportdelicious.com/my-long-term-travel-packing-list/#comment-11628 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:12:45 +0000 https://www.passportdelicious.com/?p=10868#comment-11628 In reply to Rich Kaszeta.

Ah the Sidewalk Surfers look like my kind of shoe! Thanks for the tip!
I do have a US travel outlet strip but I still have too many UK things and imagine I will for a while until I decide, uh, what to do with the rest of my life (and where to do it)
Sea-to-Summit also a great tip as the dry bags I bought were HEAVY.
And yes, Google Fi will likely be my Christmas present to myself! (Although $10 per GB seems expensive? I can easily go through 1GB a day. Which is why a local SIM can be great. In China, I got 20GB for about $25 USD.
Thanks for the great tips!

]]> By: Rich Kaszeta https://www.passportdelicious.com/my-long-term-travel-packing-list/#comment-11625 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:28:01 +0000 https://www.passportdelicious.com/?p=10868#comment-11625 A few random comments from my travel style, which admittedly is different than yours at some times:

1. Relaxing footwear: while I don’t really care for thongs, I agree that having something relaxing to wear after hours is essential. I adore my Sanuk “Sidewalk Surfers” which are basically halfway between shoes and slippers, and pack down well.

2. Outlet strip. How attached are you to your UK stuff? One annoying thing about UK outlets and adapters is that compared to the rest of the world, they are *huge*. Depending on how much you are traveling, you can shave a lot of space off shifting to a US style compact travel outlet strip. I had a four-outlet strip, one UK-to-US adapter, and two EU-to-US Adapters, and a four-USB plug-in adapters that supports high-power Apple and Android charging, plus a few cables for oddball stuff. Really, really compact compared to what I used to carry.

3. Dry Bags. I love Sea-to-Summit lightweight silicone-lined drybags. Have saved my stuff from water (and wine bottle breakage) damage several times.

4. Travel phone. I *used* to use local SIMs a lot, but I almost always just use Google Fi. To get started, you need one of the few Google-Fi approved phones (or have a friend with one) to activate it (the cheapest is $200), but for international roaming their plans are *awesome* (basically, roaming works almost everywhere with almost no charges) with $10/GB, capped at $60/mo total bill (I rarely crack $30/month), and they’ll give you free Data sims (I find I only need one actual phone). Oddly, despite being a US-based service, it actually sucks in rural US, but it’s worked flawlessly for me in the UK, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France….

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