To continue from part 1.
10) Always keep your finger and toe nails properly trimmed. It really sucks when something hits a toe nail or you try and pick something up and it bends it backwards / breaks it. Bleeding on vacation always sucks.
11) With a few exceptions (Laos, Cuba), places always seem to prefer the local currency. They might accept USD, but it's better to go to an exchange place and than get screwed on the exchange by 0.50 or 1 $ every time you buy something.
12) Just about everywhere in the world has better coffee than North America.
13) If you've forgotten something like your regular glasses on the night train, most likely you've forgotten something else.
14) Related to #13, Laura likes to put things under pillows.
15) Try not to feel too sad when the locals treat a natural beauty that they live in like their own personal garbage bin. Try not to judge.
16) 18 G per person of camera space might be more than needed.
17) Tour guides might move at a faster pace than you are comfortable with.
18) If you're not used to living by the sea, be super careful where you walk on the beach.
19) Just because at home getting out of the kayak without shoes is fine, doesn't mean that it is where you travel to. Remember: coral is sharp and will mess you up.
20) Zip off pants are great things and are highly useful: when the weather changes, when it is really hot, for rafting, and a new sport that I created called "Extreme Puking".
21) In SEA, when you see really shinny floor tile, you're most likely expected to take off your shoes / sandals.
22) Wearing footwear that doesn't slip off feels like it add hours to every day.
23) A straw and a cool coconut is one of the best drinks ever.
24) Coconut water can be used as an intravenous hydration fluid. I've never seen this, but it always makes me feel safe when I drink it.
25) I dislike people that I don't know in the pictures that I take. Sometimes you have to be really patient and wait for them to leave, sometimes you need to do creating zooming or change your composition, and other times you have to suck it up and just take the picture.
26) Going to tourist sites and seeing signs like "Landmine cleared by ..." makes me nervous. I can't help that.
27) "Old" in Canada is considered 100 years. This doesn't translate well when cities that you visit are celebrating their 1000th year and complexes you're going to were started in the 12th century.
28) Locals in SEA must think that they issue Lonely Planet books as you step off the plane. Every tourist seemed to have one, is many different languages.
29) Pale, white people like us still burn on cloudy days. Always reapply sunscreen, even if you're tubing down a river at the time.
30) Pictures never look as amazing as it does while you are there. Our digital cameras (right now) just don't have a good enough dynamic range.
31) When at a cooking school for tourists, make sure you set your own pace and don't get pushed through things too fast. Remember you're on vacation and not at work.
32) When you set up rules for yourself like "don't take pictures of people without asking", if you start breaking these rules you feel dirty. But if you don't break your rules, you might never get any of the shots that you remember the most (monks in their orange robes).
33) If you don't help out your wife as she is being swarmed by little asian women trying to sell her stuff, and instead you just take a picture of said swarming (before the group tripled in size), most likely you'll be in trouble.
34) If you try to follow other people's itineraries of all the interesting places / things that they did, don't try and do things that they did in a 3+ month time frame in 4 weeks. Even if you fly from point to point, that schedule might be too aggressive.
35) Snakes can be heavier than they look, and they are really strong. Especially when they feel like they are trying to constrict and enter into your mouth.
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