What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
The post about how to get a visa to Japan for a Cambodian woman reminded me of a question I wanted to ask.
Do you take any precautions when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman, so you don't lose her, or so that she can get back to Cambodia if you drop dead?
I give my girlfriend like $50-$100 in local currency on arrival so she can get a taxi back to the hotel if separated. I also try to get a hotel taxi card and make her carry that, so she knows what hotel to go back to.
A month or so ago, I was visiting Hong Kong with my girlfriend. We took the airport train into Kowloon station. We exit the train and I ask her if she has her ticket, because the checkpoint/automated check ticket is upon exiting the station, not when you get on the train. She looks through her purse and can't find the ticket. She says "maybe I left it on the train." We were standing by the train, by I didn't want to walk back onto the train to check her seat, because if the doors then closed and the train started taking me to the next station, we'd be separated and who knows if I'd ever find her. It would be disastrous.
I told her to check her pockets and purse again. No ticket. I figure I have to jump back onto the train (it's now been stopped for like 1-2 minutes) to check if she left it on her seat, even though I really don't want to do this. So I take her duffel bag, drop it in the train doorway, run to her seat, and see the ticket sitting there on the seat. At which point the train doors start to close. The duffel bag stops them from closing, and I hop over the duffel bag, out the doors of train, and pull the duffel bag out, just like Indiana Jones would do. To say she was impressed with that move would be an understatement.
Then I asked her "What would you have done if the doors had closed with me in the train and taken me to the next station?" She says "I don't know, because I don't know what station you were going to." Which suggests to me that she would have gotten on the next train and tried to look for me at the next station instead of staying put. So we had to have a conversation, like one might have with a 5 year old, that "If we get separated, don't look for me. Stay where you are, I'll find you."
The other thing I worry about is "What if I die here?" Would she be able to get the flight home, does she have money to buy a new plane ticket or change the ticket, etc. A Cambodian woman who is not an experienced traveler, in a foreign country, with no money, and a dead white guy, would probably be pretty vulnerable.
Do you take any precautions when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman, so you don't lose her, or so that she can get back to Cambodia if you drop dead?
I give my girlfriend like $50-$100 in local currency on arrival so she can get a taxi back to the hotel if separated. I also try to get a hotel taxi card and make her carry that, so she knows what hotel to go back to.
A month or so ago, I was visiting Hong Kong with my girlfriend. We took the airport train into Kowloon station. We exit the train and I ask her if she has her ticket, because the checkpoint/automated check ticket is upon exiting the station, not when you get on the train. She looks through her purse and can't find the ticket. She says "maybe I left it on the train." We were standing by the train, by I didn't want to walk back onto the train to check her seat, because if the doors then closed and the train started taking me to the next station, we'd be separated and who knows if I'd ever find her. It would be disastrous.
I told her to check her pockets and purse again. No ticket. I figure I have to jump back onto the train (it's now been stopped for like 1-2 minutes) to check if she left it on her seat, even though I really don't want to do this. So I take her duffel bag, drop it in the train doorway, run to her seat, and see the ticket sitting there on the seat. At which point the train doors start to close. The duffel bag stops them from closing, and I hop over the duffel bag, out the doors of train, and pull the duffel bag out, just like Indiana Jones would do. To say she was impressed with that move would be an understatement.
Then I asked her "What would you have done if the doors had closed with me in the train and taken me to the next station?" She says "I don't know, because I don't know what station you were going to." Which suggests to me that she would have gotten on the next train and tried to look for me at the next station instead of staying put. So we had to have a conversation, like one might have with a 5 year old, that "If we get separated, don't look for me. Stay where you are, I'll find you."
The other thing I worry about is "What if I die here?" Would she be able to get the flight home, does she have money to buy a new plane ticket or change the ticket, etc. A Cambodian woman who is not an experienced traveler, in a foreign country, with no money, and a dead white guy, would probably be pretty vulnerable.
Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
First thing you do is get her a local sim card. Then you can message her on Facebook if you can't find her. No Khmer lady goes more than an hour without playing Facebook.
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Good post, Indy!
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Indeed, a real worry.
Perhaps a copy of your passport and a notarised letter to take to the US embassy?
You can't die yet, there are still manboobs to photograph on the riverside and paedos to expose in Cambodia.
Perhaps a copy of your passport and a notarised letter to take to the US embassy?
You can't die yet, there are still manboobs to photograph on the riverside and paedos to expose in Cambodia.
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
mobile data, first thing to do every country, solve 99% of the problems
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Posted this once but it disappeared.
MY gf and i have traveled together to Singapore,Laos, Malaysia and of course here in Thailand, ( allover) she carries her phone ,( dont need a local sim for her), passport,and a card from whatever hotel we are staying at
Knows enough that if she gets separated to just call me. if i died, she knows to call my friends here an her family
I'd be more concerned if my daughter had gotten separated from me when we traveled, ( and traveled alot), a child is much more susceptible to harm than an adult.
But than again, i didn't worry about it
MY gf and i have traveled together to Singapore,Laos, Malaysia and of course here in Thailand, ( allover) she carries her phone ,( dont need a local sim for her), passport,and a card from whatever hotel we are staying at
Knows enough that if she gets separated to just call me. if i died, she knows to call my friends here an her family
I'd be more concerned if my daughter had gotten separated from me when we traveled, ( and traveled alot), a child is much more susceptible to harm than an adult.
But than again, i didn't worry about it
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Some people have their pets implanted with microchips so that they can be located if they are lost or stolen.
As for the question about dying, do you remember in pre-interent days when guys had stashes of real porn? Some men would have deals with each other in which, if one was to die, the living guy would go to the dead guy's home and remove the porno stash. Hopefully, before the dead guy's mother found it.
Guys who travel abroad with Khmer partners should look for other men with Khmer girlfriends or wives to partner with and have an arrangement to take care of the other's partner should the barang die. They could make sure they make it safely to the airport and board the plane for Cambodia.
It would an extra incentive to stay healthy and not die, knowing that if you did, your barang buddy would probably try to bone your grieving partner.
As for the question about dying, do you remember in pre-interent days when guys had stashes of real porn? Some men would have deals with each other in which, if one was to die, the living guy would go to the dead guy's home and remove the porno stash. Hopefully, before the dead guy's mother found it.
Guys who travel abroad with Khmer partners should look for other men with Khmer girlfriends or wives to partner with and have an arrangement to take care of the other's partner should the barang die. They could make sure they make it safely to the airport and board the plane for Cambodia.
It would an extra incentive to stay healthy and not die, knowing that if you did, your barang buddy would probably try to bone your grieving partner.
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Cam Nivag wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 7:28 am The post about how to get a visa to Japan for a Cambodian woman reminded me of a question I wanted to ask.
Do you take any precautions when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman, so you don't lose her, or so that she can get back to Cambodia if you drop dead?
I give my girlfriend like $50-$100 in local currency on arrival so she can get a taxi back to the hotel if separated. I also try to get a hotel taxi card and make her carry that, so she knows what hotel to go back to.
A month or so ago, I was visiting Hong Kong with my girlfriend. We took the airport train into Kowloon station. We exit the train and I ask her if she has her ticket, because the checkpoint/automated check ticket is upon exiting the station, not when you get on the train. She looks through her purse and can't find the ticket. She says "maybe I left it on the train." We were standing by the train, by I didn't want to walk back onto the train to check her seat, because if the doors then closed and the train started taking me to the next station, we'd be separated and who knows if I'd ever find her. It would be disastrous.
I told her to check her pockets and purse again. No ticket. I figure I have to jump back onto the train (it's now been stopped for like 1-2 minutes) to check if she left it on her seat, even though I really don't want to do this. So I take her duffel bag, drop it in the train doorway, run to her seat, and see the ticket sitting there on the seat. At which point the train doors start to close. The duffel bag stops them from closing, and I hop over the duffel bag, out the doors of train, and pull the duffel bag out, just like Indiana Jones would do. To say she was impressed with that move would be an understatement.
Then I asked her "What would you have done if the doors had closed with me in the train and taken me to the next station?" She says "I don't know, because I don't know what station you were going to." Which suggests to me that she would have gotten on the next train and tried to look for me at the next station instead of staying put. So we had to have a conversation, like one might have with a 5 year old, that "If we get separated, don't look for me. Stay where you are, I'll find you."
The other thing I worry about is "What if I die here?" Would she be able to get the flight home, does she have money to buy a new plane ticket or change the ticket, etc. A Cambodian woman who is not an experienced traveler, in a foreign country, with no money, and a dead white guy, would probably be pretty vulnerable.
Ez newkidontheblock. Maybe this idea might help.
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
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Re: What precautions do you take when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman?
Valium.
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