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other than trips by car up into Canada i havent done any traveling outside the US.....in a few weeks im heading to Australia and will bum around there for a couple months....also the first time doing any major travel on my own without family or friends.....
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Everything in Australia is poisonous...
Do your best Dundee,..I bet they LOVE it when Yanks do that....
Don't surrender your Passport for Anything or Anybody....
Last edited by Deerwhacker444; 06/21/14. Reason: passport..
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When you arrive in country, or back in this country, DO NOT go to the bathroom before you go through customs. Perhaps especially coming back into the states.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I'd say keep your passport with you ALL the time. When in doubt, ask a cop for help. don't drive, if they are on the wrong side of the road. don't smoke pot in their country don't get drunk enough to fall down or pass out. It's kind of like going to NoDak, people are different there, but nice enough, if you stay out of the oil patch.  Sycamore
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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When you arrive in country, or back in this country, DO NOT go to the bathroom before you go through customs. Perhaps especially coming back into the states. That right there, and as said, guard your passport.
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Don't surrender your Passport for Anything or Anybody.... This. If it were Europe, I'd say watch out for the gypsies, but I don't guess they have 'em in Australia.
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Those Aussie gals have cute accents... 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Aussie's like to be told better ways to do things, like this is how we do it in the U.S.
--- CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE --- A Magic Time To Be An Illegal In America---
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Side note, how about health insurance etc? What happens when you have to go into a foreign hospital to have your appendix removed?
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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its already gone so not a worry 
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Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.
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its already gone so not a worry I was wondering for myself.
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I have to ask, why not bum around in Alaska? Think of the hunting & fishing opportunities. Godspeed regardless. Stay safe and I hope you find what you are looking for.
Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is.
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After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
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Read the book "Europe Through the Back Door" by Rick Steves.
Trust me, the travel tips are words to live by. A lot the info is specific to Europe but there's many tips that apply no matter where you're traveling.
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its already gone so not a worry I was wondering for myself. insurance from Medjet.. Never used it, but saw a commercial for it last week... Read the book "Europe Through the Back Door" by Rick Steves.
That one of your Gay books..?
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I actually had oral surgery done while in Australia and various medical care in Korea.
You get a bill and send it to your own insurance provider. What they won't cover, you pay.
I think that the oral surgery cost me $19 in 1995.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
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Keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open and you will learn a lot.
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its already gone so not a worry The appendix or the health insurance? Anyway, you should forget about Australia and all that passport stuff. Just cross into Mexico along some remote portion of the boarder. They will immediately give you welfare, food stamps and free healthcare at any hospital emergency room. Heck, they won't even call you an "illegal", only undocumented. In some parts of Mexico you can even get a drivers' license.
I'm better when I move.
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I have to ask, why not bum around in Alaska? Think of the hunting & fishing opportunities. Godspeed regardless. Stay safe and I hope you find what you are looking for. i am thinking of the hunting and fishing opportunities.....im gonna hunt sambar deer around Melbourne and all kinds of stuff somewhere outside of Brisbane.....plus its cheaper....being feral or introduced there is no license plus ive got guys in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane offering to take me out.....havent really had similar out of Alaska....can do a hell of alot in Australia for what a few fishing charters or such is gonna run me in AK....
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Don't yell "ALLAH AKBAR" and run to the cockpit while flying to and from Australia.
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