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18 Oct 2021
Traveling checklist
Current trip
- Add references below:
  
  e.g. LUGGAGE weight/size, weather, intinerary screenshots
- Add special items needed for the current trip
- RETURN TRIP? -> add its “special items” from list above here
- DELETE irrelevant checklist items outright (e.g. no check in for train trip) before start
One week before
- Add CHECK IN DATE to calendar!
- Buy TRAIN TICKETS if any
  
  BahnCARD-25 that I have
  
  Contingenies for late trains — flex ticket?
  
  Is it the CORRECT AIRPORT?
- Check my PLANS for the trip and PEOPLE there
  
  Recent birthdays?
  
  Planned special occasions?
  
  Any appointments HERE when I’m away?
- Check relevant TAGS in taskwarrior: +UA/DE/LT, pro:h.trip
- Timezones? Target + intermediate points
  
  0: IT=DE=PL=HR (+0)
  
  1: Lithuania=UA=Turkey (+1)
- Any DOCUMENTS for there/back that take time?
- Need to REFILL any prescription medicines?
- Any important POST or Packages? Fill/sign form if yes
- Anything to eat before leaving?
Evening before
- START CHARGING:
  
  phone
  
  laptop
  
  powerbank(s)?
  
  bluetooth headphones
  
  bluetooth button thingy
- CHECK IN
  
  Download (or use shiny app for) BOARDING PASS
  
  Note WEIGHT/size requirements
  
  Is the AIRPORT correct?
- Entertainment
  
  Download podcasts or movies?
  
  Podcasts
  
  sth long like Fall of Civilizations Podcast , or casual like Nightvale?..
  
  Papers to read?
- Laptop:
  
  git push or backup:
  
  Work stuff
  
  DTB
  
  qs
  
  ..dotfiles?
  
  CLOSE programs before the battery does
  
  Small BACKUP to external drive?
- Set any ALARMS
Bureaucracy and documents
- Documents
  
  PASSPORT(s)
  
  NIEDERLASSUNGSERLAUBNIS
  
  Credit cards
  
  Health insurance
  
  BahnCARD
  
  Anything else needed there or on the way back?
  
  LEAVE any unneeded documents
  
  Clean wallet, leave S-Bahn tickets etc.
- SIM cards
  
  Take BOX with them + paperclip
  
  CHARGE any SIM cards
Practicalities
- KEYS for all potentially needed apts, both directions
  
  LEAVE unneeded keys
  
  Take lanyard if hotels planned
- Clean:
  
  wallet
  
  backpack
- MONEY in carry-on
  
  2x of planned, all currencies
- Last time, what will be needed on the WAY BACK? (Docs/keys/…)
Electronics
- Electronics
  
  USB-hub + cables!
  
  Подовжувач?
  
  Laptop
  
  MOUSE and the CORRECT (!) USB dongle
  
  HEADPHONES wired and/or bluetooth
  
  incl. charger/cables if applicable
  
  Bluetooth button thingy
- CHARGERS/cables/…
  
  Phone charger
  
  Laptop charger
  
  Powerbank
  
  HDMI cable?
- DISCONNECT unneeded USB dongles from laptop
Personal
- Teeth
  
  Toothbrush
  
  IF electronic - all needed BRUSHES
  
  IF trip is long - CHARGER
  
  ?Irrigator
  
  All the tiny things to clean teeth
  
  Small Listerine bottle with my current mouthwash
- MASKS: 1x of both types
- HAND SANITIZER
- My water bottle
- MEDICINES
  
  The usual PRESCRIPTION stuff
  
  HOW LONG will I be away?
  
  For the trip:
  
  Something agaist NAUSEA
  
  Atoxil / Eliminal / Sorbex
  
  Painkillers
- Second pair of glasses if conference or long trip
? Camping stuff
- Camping stuff
  
  Glasses box if planning to take glassess off often (sea, camping, …)
  
  my metallic cup to keep phones glasses etc
  
  Salt, sugar?
  
  Tea
Trip
- What will be needed on the WAY there?
- What is available / will be / is needed in TARGET?
- (Nalgene?) WATER that won’t roll in a plane
- Кульки
- Серветки
  
  сухі
  
  мокрі
- Thermoflasche?
- SLEEP MASK, беруши? Clothing with hood?
- Баф?
- Рассческа
- BOOK
- PEN AND PAPER (or notebook)
  
  pencils/pen/eraser for drawing?..
- Is any of the food liquid?
- Instant tea/coffee?
- Card holder + lanyard, if hotels planned
- Chewing gum
Clothes
- WEATHER
  
  Check weather at target point:
  
  Leipzig,
  
  weather Vilnius next 5 days - Wolfram|Alpha
  
  Berlin
  
  Kyiv,
  
  Rome - BBC Weather
  
  If it’s COLD
  
  pants are more important than upper body
  
  Термобілизна
  
  Капюшон
  
  Handschuhe?
  
  If it’s WARM - too-warm-shoes will make life hell
  
  HAT!
  
  Sunscreen?
- Polo with BREAST POCKET¹ for passport/docs
- Comfortable shoes
- Belt
- N underwear
- N socks
- Плавки?
- Одежа для “дому” - футболка, тапки, …
  
  Яка ок для вулиці теж!
- Backpack rain cover
DEPARTURE CHECKLIST
- LUGGAGE
  
  info:
  
  Baggage on short-haul flights with LOT | LOT.com
  
  Handgepäck | Gepäckbestimmungen | airBaltic
  
  WEIGHT within limits
  
  Paper with date, flight, contact info
  
  Take PICTURES inside, outside
  
  Remove stray TAGS
- ROOM clean
  
  Take away the TRASH
  
  Especially ORGANICS
- Everything turned off
  
  WINDOWS closed
  
  Electricity off
  
  Things in sockets taken or disconnected
  
  Water off
- Go last time through stuff that was charging overnight
- Toothbrush
- ESSENTIALS
  
  Phone, phone charger, laptop, laptop charger
  
  Passport + Aufenthaltstitel
  
  CORRECT TICKETS printed or downloaded
Old / removed
- Fitbit charger
- Bluetooth button thingy
- internal passport :(
Related / references
- https://github.com/jpcaparas/travel-checklist
- TODO: put steps in each group in order of importance
Changelog
- 2022-06-11: added bit about timezones
- 2023-04-03: added list of timezones + LOT luggage rules
- 2023-05-15: added the bits about me now havig a BahnCARD
- 2023-01-03: added the bits about the button thingy, Thermoflasche; removed obsolete items
- 2023-08-07: added USB hub thing
- 2024-05-10:
  
  added: second pair of glasses
  
  removed/deemph.: corona
- 2024-12-23:
  
  added thermal clothing, backpack rain protection, gloves, “current trip”
  
  removed: corona stuff, student ID, netflix
- 2025-05-12: completely removed corona stuff
- 2025-06-05: Added Listerine bit
- 2025-08-06: Deemph. masks; added swimming stuff
- 2025-08-07: “Add items from past checklist”
- 2025-08-26: “Set alarms”; “delete irrelevant items” (instead of marking them as done)
- 2025-08-29:
  
  Added versioning to keep track of this between different Obsidian vaults. Yay v.2.0.0
  
  2.0.1 add old/removed
can be used both for docs (passport and boarding passes) and for things like headphones on the plane ↩︎
18 Oct 2021
САМЫЙ УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫЙ «ПОХУДИТЕЛЬНЫЙ» САЛАТ^DRAFT
Ingredients
- 1/2 баночки тунца в собственном соку (90-100 г.)
- огурец (Без шкурки)
- помидор
- листья салата
- зерненная горчица
- соль, сухой чеснок
Steps
- Все смешиваем, заправляем оливковым маслом

serhii.net

Traveling checklist

Current trip

One week before

Evening before

Bureaucracy and documents

Practicalities

Electronics

Personal

? Camping stuff

Trip

Clothes

DEPARTURE CHECKLIST

Old / removed

Related / references

Changelog

САМЫЙ УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫЙ «ПОХУДИТЕЛЬНЫЙ» САЛАТDRAFT

Ingredients

Steps

САМЫЙ УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫЙ «ПОХУДИТЕЛЬНЫЙ» САЛАТ^DRAFT