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Originally Posted by markharf
You’re making it all too complicated. Always be prepared to tell them you’ve got reasons to return home (a job, family, golf tournaments, or whatever), always be ready to show signs you’ve got money backing you up (couple of credit cards, couple of debit cards), and always have an address you can plausibly claim to be staying at (I never actually stay there, and I never make an actual reservation—just take the first handy hotel address out of a Lonely Planet guidebook). They hardly ever ask about any of this, so it’s all precautionary and not worth spending a lot of time fretting over.
What WILL attract attention is if they ask you a simple question (“How long will you be staying?”) and you launch into a wordy explanation. Just tell them 3 months (or whatever), and you’ll be flying home. Nobody really cares about you, your military service, or anything else—unless you give them a reason to (or have the wrong color skin, an Arabic surname, or a perspiration disorder) Seriously: nobody cares. They WANT you spending money in their country—the last thing they’re interested in is refusing you entry.
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Good advice, I am not trying to complicate it intentionally, I am just ignorant of what to expect from lack of experience of overlanding border to border. I am going blind into something I have never done before. It is like anything else, I will do it and I will be like "Oh that was not a big deal". I agree with what you said, no one cares about us unless we give them a reason to, they just want money coming into their country. The only reason I brought up my military background is certain MOS's and skillsets in the military can raise red flags from a counterintelligence standpoint and put more eyes on you, so per a response earlier, I don't need to talk about a space A military flight which they won't understand possibly and start drawing attention to myself. My goal is to make sure I don't miss any administrative aspects of my entry on what I am doing and to stay under the radar so I can just explore around each country.
I am going to keep it simple stupid, your advice gives me a good perception of how I need to handle myself with the border crossings and it makes sense.
Thanks for the advice
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