Packing List
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Packing List
Items that could be useful to carry along when voyaging to the FSU and visiting - based on suggestions/experiences by:
- Clothing and shoes (I wrote this because someone would mention it otherwise).
- Sports coat.
- Spring jacket (I'm going late April).
- Prescriptions.
- Current Converter.
- Phone charger.
- Copies of all your documents.
- Aspirin, Pepto, general toiletries.
- Ziploc bags.
- Baby wipes (for cleaning hands while out and about).
- Travel pillow.
- Money belt.
Calmissile:
- 220 V European adapter plugs for computer and various chargers.
- Misc. chargers for electronics (tablet, computer, camera, etc.)
- Misc. accessory cords for downloading photos, etc between media.
- Spare thumb drives, etc.
- Phone numbers and addresses for Russia contacts and USA contacts including banks, etc.
- You might want to take a small gift that is made in the USA that depicts something about the country: maps, flags, Disneyland Shirts were popular for my wife's family.
- Handheld GPS (even though she will be leading you around, it is interesting to follow on the GPS where you go and where you have been).
- I don't recall her English skills, but my wife and I used an electronic translator quite a bit. Both on computer and tablet.
Mendeleyev:
- A couple of small flashlights.
- Several packets of travel tissues: you will not only use them to blow your nose but as napkins and as toilet tissue when out and about, or on the train (in winter I recommend about 4 packets for each week's stay).
- A printed Moscow Metro map. http://engl.mosmetro.ru/flash/scheme01.html
- An umbrella.
- A notepad and ink pens: helpful for all sort of uses, from writing down directions to copying words you see that you'd like to learn.
- Several cloth/fabric shopping bags: they take very little space and weigh nothing, but are indispensable when out and about, and especially on the train.
- At least one canvas-type lined shopping bag, the thin but lined type designed to keep things cold in summer: these are absolutely handy to keep dry from the elements such things as cameras, books, metro maps, souvenirs, etc.
- Several small flash drives for cameras and audio devices (better than one large drive per apparatus: all it takes is one theft, one police or military checkpoint confiscation, or one lost drive to ruin days or weeks' worth of photographing/recording if everything is on a single drive).
