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This topic is most certainly 'TMI' (aka 'Too Much Information') and is probably best not read at all.

My advice is to skip to something in the 'Chit Chat' forum, especially if you are currently eating breakfast.

A bit of 'backround' (no pun intended):

Unless you are having an 'out of body experience', one travels with their body. The body prefers to function on a Circadian rhythm, which stubbornly refuses to adjust to whatever time zone that you have just landed in.

Your regularity is messed with. To add fuel to the fire, ones normal meal habits go by the wayside.

Air travel and the vacation lifestyle combined with probable dehydration is only the precursor to an unusual intake of dodgy alcohol, spicy curries, and the careless consumption strange foods that invariably have been deep fried.

The combination of these 'foods' plus the wonky circadium rhythm plus tropical heat plus scratchy foreign toilet paper invariably leads to disappointment, discomfort, delay (then rapid discharge) and eventual abrasion in the nether regions. Don't ask me how I learned this.

I would like to recommend that one take along a roll of Charmin Plus With Lotion.

Your butt will thank me later.

True, so true!

But I've learned that if you stay in a place long enought to adjust the body learns a new, ahem, rhythm.

In Japan and Russia everyone carries pocket pouch baby wipes (they come in a feminine adult version but cost more) and those cute little tissue packs. Japanese and Russian toilets rarely have TP. Let's not even bring up the trains...

My ass wouldn't have made it across Russia if I hadn't gone to Japan first!

I hear ya...

I like to always bring along some Metamucil (the individual packets), and take it every night before bed. It'll keep you regular and taking it at night means you'll be ready to "go" in the morning, which means, you'll have a worry-free day of activities!