{"id":1864,"date":"2005-01-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2005\/01\/27\/macs-travel-tips-4\/"},"modified":"2005-01-27T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T23:00:00","slug":"macs-travel-tips-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-tips-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Mac&#8217;s Travel Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is<br \/>\n still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a<br \/>\n collection of travel tips based on several trawls of travel<br \/>\n websites.  Here are some of the tips Mac has garnered:\n <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n 1. Put wallet in breast pocket of shirt and then put<br \/>\n another shirt over it.  Me: might want to have a<br \/>\n second more accessible wallet to hand to any potential<br \/>\n robber\n <\/li>\n<li>\n 2. One traveller wrote that he kept two thirds of his cash<br \/>\n in a pouch by his underwear\n <\/li>\n<li>\n 3. Another person wrote in to suggest this: you get old<br \/>\n white undies, create a fake crap stain in the appropriate<br \/>\n place and lay over your valuables\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n And here are some items that travellers have listed as being<br \/>\n most glad they took: Gortex jacket, universal sink plug,<br \/>\n nalgene bottle, toilet bag, pocket knife and camera, hiking<br \/>\n type boots, backpack with pull-up handles and wheels, travel<br \/>\n pillow, toothfloss, Pitzi headlight (a couple mentioned<br \/>\n this), Ortlied folding bucket (a laundry bucket, bearing<br \/>\n service bucket, and hat all in one).\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Nick O Neill writes in BootsNall.com some good advice.<br \/>\n  Mac says that he stole his name Travel Nutter from<br \/>\n Nick.  He evidently has travelled for years.  Some<br \/>\n ideas I gained from Nick: when you shower pin your money belt<br \/>\n with a safety pin to your towel.  (I don&rsquo;t know<br \/>\n about that, I am so forgetful, I would probably leave the<br \/>\n shower room without my towel or the money belt attached to<br \/>\n it!)\n <\/p>\n<p>\n On the subject of backpacks, Nick says he prefers a simple<br \/>\n pack without 75 pockets and straps.  He takes a medium<br \/>\n sized pack that doesn&rsquo;t encourage me to pack too much.<br \/>\n  Beetle: I have a side zipped Lowe Alpine pack that<br \/>\n doubles up as a holdall that looks a bit less back packer-ish<br \/>\n for those odd occasions when checking into somewhere a little<br \/>\n more up market.  Whatever backpack you use, try to get<br \/>\n one with a zip cover that hides away all of the handles as<br \/>\n these can get stuck in airport conveyor belts etc.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Nick says he has used an extra long North Face sleeping bag<br \/>\n for over a decade.  Mac asks, does he own<br \/>\n stock? Mac says he uses a hollow filled bag while<br \/>\n heavier than a down bag, it will retain heat when wet.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Nick says that he carries three $l00 bills in his money belt<br \/>\n (the one fastened to a towel).  He says he has even been<br \/>\n able to use them in a shack in the Himalayas.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Back to Mac: travellers who have had some military service<br \/>\n might want to check out the overseas military clubs that are<br \/>\n equivalent to the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign<br \/>\n Wars etc.  In Australia and New Zealand and Western<br \/>\n Samoa they are RSL Clubs.  I checked in at Cairns, told<br \/>\n them a little bit about myself, where I had travelled etc and<br \/>\n asked if they knew where the Catholic Church was, the time of<br \/>\n Mass etc. and if they knew any reasonable place to stay and<br \/>\n eat, asked about local bus transportation, what I should see<br \/>\n etc. They made me an honorary member of their organization<br \/>\n for the time of my stay in Australia.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n In South Africa they are MOTH clubs (military order of tin<br \/>\n hats which started in WWI) and Comrade Clubs (British<br \/>\n oriented.)  Again, I was made an honorary member and<br \/>\n even invited to some of the members&rsquo; homes. They like<br \/>\n to learn about you and you like to learn about them.  In<br \/>\n the MOTH clubs the commander is always called Old Bill no<br \/>\n matter what his actual name is.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n In Western Samoa, the commander of their RSL was an American<br \/>\n working in Western Samoa. I asked how he got to be commander<br \/>\n of this foreign club.  He laughed and said he was about<br \/>\n the only one of its members that had been in the service, the<br \/>\n rest were associate members. Sometimes these clubs in some<br \/>\n places to keep them going take associate members without any<br \/>\n military service.  Most of them are very hospitable and<br \/>\n good sources of information and kind of a security blanket.<br \/>\n Mac\n <\/p>\n<p>\n The Athletic Clubs and other clubs in some of the countries<br \/>\n when you show them your passport will let you eat there and<br \/>\n use their facilities.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n If you would like to contact Mac, he is happy to answer<br \/>\n e-mails: <a>&#109;&#097;&#099;&#115;&#097;&#110;&#052;&#048;&#048;&#064;&#121;&#097;&#104;&#111;&#111;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel tips based on several&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-main-article","tag-january-2005"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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