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Old 28th January 2008, 19:54   #80 (permalink)
btirthankar
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Default Tools and Medicines

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Originally Posted by rockingstart View Post
Techno,
This is an amazing info, I totally agree with you on all the items, as a matter of fact I do carry most of them except the gun. I would suggest to plan your trip in such a way that you cover the dacoit prone patch during the day time, Even in current times A long path between MP and Maharastra lots of dacoits are active, not only in night but during the the day time too you have to travel in a convoy.
Besides the stuff mentioned I would suggest that while taking a long travel never ever forget to take few essential medicines and keep them in car
1. Antisceptic Cream
2. Medicines for Fever, Cold(You catch cold or fever due to change of climate specially while you travel to hills)
3. Pudin Hara or antacid.(To releive you of any acid relate stomach pain which is common when one eats outside in a different city)
4. Pain Releivers. (To help you in releiving of long sitting and traveling stress and pain)
5. Vitamin B, C(During the travel it is common that one loses salts)
6. ORS solutions.
and If you wear specs dont forget to take a spare with you.
Although the list is never ending and keeps changing depending on the place you are visiting .
we (me+wife) always do non stop and medicines are important as proved in our last Goa-Hyd trip when my wife got ill due to acidity.

I also carry a toolbox with emergency lite. Once we were doing Hyd-Delhi non stop and in the dead of the night at Nagpur the brake system leaked..... we continued in that condition just throught the Seoni-Sagar stretch in MP...see the pic: alone.. in our Opel in pitch darkness... in the dawn.,.... we bled the brake system and brought back the pedal,,,,, all because I had the right wrench to undo the bleeder nut.
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