If you're going to be going far afield, a recurve is the way to go. You can restring them yourself and there's no cams to keep tuned; like a standard recurve bow, you don't have a lot of fiddling around to do. With a compound xbow, if the cams get out of adjustment, you'll have some major windage problems.
For long distance travel, especially involving airlines, you can unstring and disassemble a recurve bow so that all the pieces fit into a double take-down shotgun case, then reassemble everything when you get where you're going. A couple of test shots and you're good to go.
Excalibur had some problems with limb breakage, so I bought a spare pair of limbs and can change them at hunting camp if needs be.
There's advantages to both compound and recurve, but for me the recurve won out.
