ANDY’S TRAVELS & RANTS

1.  Purell
2. Credit and Debit cards (make copies of both sides of card)
3. Cloth that you can layer, the desert can be very hot and go cold.
4. Sandals (Keene) walking shoes, tennis shoes 
5. One nice outfit
6. Batteries as needed - get Lithium type.
7. Check camera chargers for 110/220. Adapter plugs as needed. Should have two batteries.
8.  Hat with a good brim - Tilley is good
9.  Zip lock bags to keep electronics
10. Medicine - Cipro, lomotil, imodium, benedril, pain reliever, gum 
11. Belt with no metal (google no metal belts)
12. Toilet paper can buy travel rolls
13  Cell phone - international MOBAL
14. A flat extra bag that will fit into your luggage to put your treasures in.
15. Scarf for your face 
16. Money belt
17. 3 pairs pants
18. two pair of shorts
19. Long and Short sleeve shirts or long sleeve shirts with tee shirts for layering
20. Dollar bills for tips
21. Travel Vest - Like a camera vest but lighter
22. Couple of good books. Reading light for the books.
23. Small travel alarm.
24. iPod, ear buds and charger
25. Travel notebook
26. Air iten with locater and e-ticket numbers
27. Pens
28. Small pill case for pocket
29. Camera and batteries, video gear, and chargers
30. Passport with extra pictures (also copies of passport in luggage)
31. Travel book with air phone numbers and travel company numbers
32.  Hat - men Tilley
33.  Priority pass card information of lounges
34.  OAT jacket and vest
35.  4 pair sox 6 underware
36.  Mag light
37.  GPS
38.  Pocket computer
39.  CC numbers of banks call cc companies - out if country notice
40. OAT booklet
41.  Pocket travel guides
42.  Luggage scale (check luggage wt and sizes)

Going on a return trip to Egypt, this will be my third trip to Egypt, but it will  be the first to Jordan.  We are flying Air Egypt and will be leaving Feb. 18th.  So far all trip preps are going well,  I just got a GPS for my camera. It will be interesting to see how it works, so far on test trials it’s a great thing.  It records the position of the potograph and you can then view selected photos on google earth.  Great to follow the trip and to remember where a certain picture may have come from.  I also got one of the mini computers, (about a lb.) so if i run into hot spots, it will blog as i go on this trip.  We will see if it happens.  So far the trip is to Cairo, down to Luxor 4 days on the Nile, then down to Aswan with a flight to Ammon, Jordan and to Petra.