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International Field Engineer Travel Tips?
ShamelessHero writes "I was recently hired as a Field Engineer, deploying servers, workstations and peripherals to sites around the globe. I try and travel light, but try as I might, the Emergency Repair Kit has ruined three sets of luggage so far. I know there are Slashdotters here who travel internationally and through some treacherous environs. What are the best travel tips you've come up with? Recommendations for durable, light yet large luggage are much appreciated."
More likely, in his case, hand lotion.
but no more than 5ml!!
If you CAN eat horrific things, and the locals are messing with you to make you look foolish-suggest a better place to eat, and take them somewhere where they turn green. Evil...but funny.
not everywhere has a "generic American burger joint"
the preceding post was not spell checked... suck it.
I once had a japanese customer that really enjoyed himself seeing me eat "natto" (a sort of soy bean curd gone terribly mad) at breakfeast in Hokkaido.
When he came to visit in Paris I brought him to an "only cheese" french restaurant. And we really have delicious but very smelly cheeses here 8)
(for cheese lovers, they have a "Crescendo" plate, where you start with a light, fresh goat cheese and finish with something called ""Le Gris", which is like the strongest goat cheese ever, even stronger in taste and smell than "l'Epoisse")
The next time in Japan, I got an invitation to the best non-sushi restaurant in town. Seems he got the message all right.
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
Being half plastered always helped me going through other companies clean room prep process. Especially Fujistu and stripping buck naked and letting some tech dress me in a damp-skin-sticking bunny suit.
An Italian fab worker once told me that if you can't function on half a bottle of wine, its time to floor it and get home as soon as possible.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Use PayPal. I can guarantee that all your money will be in a foreign country before you know it.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!