stuff to bring during the trip

Lonford, are you saying that I don't need a faucet or Bathroom fixtures? Instead of beating around the bush just come out and say it.

A number of posters suggested scanning your passport and other documents and e mailing it to yourself so that you could access it anywhere via your webmail. It sounded interesting so I mentioned that on a board dealing with computer programs and they suggested to do so could be disastrous. The said your data could easily be hacked and stolen. I wonder how you could do it securely?

Re: scanning passport and sending to self:
Likelihood, when travelling internationally for extensive lengths of time, of at least one person seeing your stuff, knowing that there's a passport and a plane ticket in it, and at least entertaining the thought, "Hey, I'd take that stuff"--middling to high.

Likelihood of random hacker targeting YOUR email, YOUR attachments, and YOUR passport data: snowball in hell.

You pays your money and you takes your chances.