People are pretty desperate in 2nd and 3rd world countries, and I'm starting this thread partly to bring together some disparate information I've seen on other threads and to remind myself to buy some stuff I need and do some things before I leave. My problem is the older you get the deeper you have to go into buttfuck to get 8+ girls. Downtown Manila models are not after 60 year olds most times.
i'm older so the macho attitude, "Oh you're paranoid" might be fine for younger guys but I recover slow from beatings and fraud and I have a profession to maintain that was gained at huge cost to me.
I understand there's always risk but escaping ameriwhales makes it worth it, but no need to be stupid.
I'll just throw some ideas out and welcome differing and added opinions. I would like to avoid it turning in to primarily a martial arts thread however.
GENERAL
a) Make sure girls are legal. I've heard of, but of course not personally experienced, girl posing as 18 on sites then saying later they're really underage. I comply with all laws and advise all others to do the same. Condoms if you're not in an impregnation rampage.
b) travel health insurance with emergency evacuation.Note some insurance doesn't cover MC accidents or snokeling diving.
c) Vaccinations and preventive ( malaria, DEET in tropicals, Mosquito proof shirt, mosquito nets for bed for tropical beach hut sex sessions) Cipro(?) if your guts explode. San Francisco has a public health travel clinic that's great, cheap cuz it gubmint run and great for gamers headed out. Of course that's soshulism so you shouldn't go there.
d) super careful with motorcycles , diving (snorkeling second most frequent cause of death I believe after MC)
don't go barefoot places unless it's extremely groomed, one friend going to SE Asia got a deep cut on his bare foot that was weeks of headaches and multiple trips to hospital (on the hurting foot of course) to stitch, let heal, fix the infection, it would have been a non-issue if he was wearing sandals.
e) have enough credit available to immediately go to airport and leave anytime in an emergency. I wanted to leave someplace once, not a real emergency, the fees to change the ticket can be quite high.
INFORMATION SECURITY
1) Pipelining:
a) Use anonymous emails,
b) don't tell precise profession if in combination with other info could make you traceable,
c) use "I work for the government and am not allowed to have a facebook page" to deflect requests if you don't have a fake one ( this has worked a few times so far foe me on under 23 chicks, makes you sound important instead of evasive) I do a disclaimer, "I'm not a spy of course, or I wouldn't tell you that...I do a sort of end run using the fact I work in health care.. talk about confidentiality for patients so I don't want my name out there.
d) Don't be bringing back sex pics into the us or across borders. I just bought a Chromebook which can be "powerwashed' so there's basically no info in the unit. Doesn't run skype however. Got it used for $125 and it runs youtube videos as another poster recommended to keep your dim-witted girlfriends amused. You probably don't have that much chance of US Customs demanding to access your email accounts as that's stuff already in the US territory not at the border so Customs is probably not real eager to investigate that.
e) Set up your phone so new messages don't show when it's locked, your name will show in headers, bring locked phone into the shower in the locked bathroom,
f) resist telling your real name when asked, say you'll do it after you establish a real relationship, maybe again mention your profession in vague terms and distract while doing DHV that you make money.
Local Customs and Security:
a) Make sure leases are signed, one other ukraine guy who actually got in a fistfight with his landlord said they are scared once the lease is signed, no one including you wants the police involved or trusts them, I was assaulted so they could get more money from someone else when I failed to make sure lease was signed, the red flag was the landlady tried to renegotiate at the lease signing and asked for more money. Beware of all people who try to renegotiate deals.
b) You will always be more suspect as the foreigner unless there are sympathetic specialized tourist protection police, you can't defend yourself verbally well, or obtain good defense if you don't speak the language well so getting into a fight which may be defensible in your country may look totally totally different in another country. One blow can kill someone so imagine explaining that. You could "win" a fight that could have been avoided and be there with the cops and the beat-down local who started it-- who do think they'll believe?
c) anyone who approaches you is automatically suspect, average people in most places are honest, so if you approach a random ( not in a strip club or bar but in a mall etc) you have a better chance of that person being OK than someone who offers to help.
d) always lie about when you're leaving, say it's later than you really will, then if someone's plotting you might be gone before they attempt sting.
STREETWISE DETAILS
A) Elsewhere someone recommended keeping a second decoy wallet with a few bucks , and expired ID, and a couple dead credit cards in it. If you get robbed give them that.
b) Get metal mesh lined back back for your room lock it when chicks are there. don't bring an expensive laptop.
i'm older so the macho attitude, "Oh you're paranoid" might be fine for younger guys but I recover slow from beatings and fraud and I have a profession to maintain that was gained at huge cost to me.
I understand there's always risk but escaping ameriwhales makes it worth it, but no need to be stupid.
I'll just throw some ideas out and welcome differing and added opinions. I would like to avoid it turning in to primarily a martial arts thread however.
GENERAL
a) Make sure girls are legal. I've heard of, but of course not personally experienced, girl posing as 18 on sites then saying later they're really underage. I comply with all laws and advise all others to do the same. Condoms if you're not in an impregnation rampage.
b) travel health insurance with emergency evacuation.Note some insurance doesn't cover MC accidents or snokeling diving.
c) Vaccinations and preventive ( malaria, DEET in tropicals, Mosquito proof shirt, mosquito nets for bed for tropical beach hut sex sessions) Cipro(?) if your guts explode. San Francisco has a public health travel clinic that's great, cheap cuz it gubmint run and great for gamers headed out. Of course that's soshulism so you shouldn't go there.
d) super careful with motorcycles , diving (snorkeling second most frequent cause of death I believe after MC)
don't go barefoot places unless it's extremely groomed, one friend going to SE Asia got a deep cut on his bare foot that was weeks of headaches and multiple trips to hospital (on the hurting foot of course) to stitch, let heal, fix the infection, it would have been a non-issue if he was wearing sandals.
e) have enough credit available to immediately go to airport and leave anytime in an emergency. I wanted to leave someplace once, not a real emergency, the fees to change the ticket can be quite high.
INFORMATION SECURITY
1) Pipelining:
a) Use anonymous emails,
b) don't tell precise profession if in combination with other info could make you traceable,
c) use "I work for the government and am not allowed to have a facebook page" to deflect requests if you don't have a fake one ( this has worked a few times so far foe me on under 23 chicks, makes you sound important instead of evasive) I do a disclaimer, "I'm not a spy of course, or I wouldn't tell you that...I do a sort of end run using the fact I work in health care.. talk about confidentiality for patients so I don't want my name out there.
d) Don't be bringing back sex pics into the us or across borders. I just bought a Chromebook which can be "powerwashed' so there's basically no info in the unit. Doesn't run skype however. Got it used for $125 and it runs youtube videos as another poster recommended to keep your dim-witted girlfriends amused. You probably don't have that much chance of US Customs demanding to access your email accounts as that's stuff already in the US territory not at the border so Customs is probably not real eager to investigate that.
e) Set up your phone so new messages don't show when it's locked, your name will show in headers, bring locked phone into the shower in the locked bathroom,
f) resist telling your real name when asked, say you'll do it after you establish a real relationship, maybe again mention your profession in vague terms and distract while doing DHV that you make money.
Local Customs and Security:
a) Make sure leases are signed, one other ukraine guy who actually got in a fistfight with his landlord said they are scared once the lease is signed, no one including you wants the police involved or trusts them, I was assaulted so they could get more money from someone else when I failed to make sure lease was signed, the red flag was the landlady tried to renegotiate at the lease signing and asked for more money. Beware of all people who try to renegotiate deals.
b) You will always be more suspect as the foreigner unless there are sympathetic specialized tourist protection police, you can't defend yourself verbally well, or obtain good defense if you don't speak the language well so getting into a fight which may be defensible in your country may look totally totally different in another country. One blow can kill someone so imagine explaining that. You could "win" a fight that could have been avoided and be there with the cops and the beat-down local who started it-- who do think they'll believe?
c) anyone who approaches you is automatically suspect, average people in most places are honest, so if you approach a random ( not in a strip club or bar but in a mall etc) you have a better chance of that person being OK than someone who offers to help.
d) always lie about when you're leaving, say it's later than you really will, then if someone's plotting you might be gone before they attempt sting.
STREETWISE DETAILS
A) Elsewhere someone recommended keeping a second decoy wallet with a few bucks , and expired ID, and a couple dead credit cards in it. If you get robbed give them that.
b) Get metal mesh lined back back for your room lock it when chicks are there. don't bring an expensive laptop.
