Before you travel, no one tells you that you need rather a large continguency fund to replace the things you lose, get stolen or break. So far, my tally appears to be (as far as I've realised as constant moving addles the brain):
1 x vest - stolen by a Cambodian maid.
2 x scarfs - lost/left in a bar
4 x Sunglasses - 3 x broken, 1 x lost.
1 x dress - left in Singapore
Driving licence - god knows where it's gone. I think it could be sitting in a post office in Brisbane.
1 x watch - fell off in a taxi (realised afterwards)
8 x other items of clothing/underwear - after being laundered in Asia in the equivalent of Ganges river water, they fall apart, lose colour or just lose the will to live on you.
Documents and passport - these are constantly on a mission to disappear within my bag or rucksack - I know they are in there somewhere but the pesky things are so good at hiding from me at the wrong moment.
Dignity - lost about half a dozen times so far.
Being self conscious - every day, major exception being when I watched having a wee by women in a Cambodian loo! I was pre-warned it may happen but it was still a shock!
Brain cells - doing well, only a few million so far.
Sanity, consciously and unconsciously - ongoing problem. :-))
Anyone planning to travel long term - you have been pre-warned.
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