{"id":16,"date":"2007-04-03T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/leaving-town\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:08:42","slug":"leaving-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/leaving-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving town&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much work it is to sort out and shutdown your life in a city. Packing, shipping, change of address, goodbyes, etc&#8230; Especially if you&#8217;re planning on being out of the country for a few months, there&#8217;s a lot of crazy stuff to do. A few things I discovered in my preparation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.remotecontrolmail.com\">Remote Control Mail<\/a> is a company that you can have your mail sent to and they will scan it, PDF it and let you read it on the web. It takes a while to get set up (You need to send a notarized permission slip to the US Postal Service) but once it&#8217;s going, it&#8217;s very cool. The interface is a little crude and not tuned for low bandwidth connections but still it&#8217;s a great service. This is a business I looked at starting at one point so I&#8217;m glad somebody is making a go of it. Now they just need to get indexed by Google (but only for you&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onebag.com\">Onebag.com<\/a> is really marvelous about telling you how to pack light for a long trip. In particular the MEI Voyageur bag they recommend is fantastic. It&#8217;s sort of a pain to get (You have to call the guy who makes them) but it&#8217;s really fantastic. Being able to carry everything you have on your back easily makes a big big difference to how you travel.<\/li>\n<li>A stick of body glide is a great investment. If youre in 120 degree heat and 100% humidity and walking carrying 40lbs or so, skin in some sensitive places can start to get a little tender.<\/li>\n<li>Moleskin notebooks are perfect for sticking in your pocket and writing down addresses, people&#8217;s names, thoughts that occur to you etc&#8230; If you&#8217;re in a place you don&#8217;t speak the language you can often show a taxi driver a written address and he will take you where you need to go.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that your guidebooks are recent. I have a 2004 Let&#8217;s Go (whoops) and things have changed a little.<\/li>\n<li>I brought black leather shoes &#8220;in case I want to go somewhere nice&#8221; and right now that feels about as likely as going to the moon.<\/li>\n<li>Do not, under any circumstances, lose your ATM card. Seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much work it is to sort out and shutdown your life in a city. Packing, shipping, change of address, goodbyes, etc&#8230; Especially if you&#8217;re planning on being out of the country for a few months, there&#8217;s a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}