jordan palestine border
18
May
Show Notes

028: Surviving Bringing Weapons Across The Jordan Palestine Border

Posted on by Christopher Rudder

What To Do If…

While crossing the border from Jordan into Palestine the souvenir sword you purchased starts setting off every single security alarm and light? You are accused of carrying a weapon and brought into the office for further interrogation.

About The Guest

Katherine is a freelance writer covering travel, lifestyle, literature, & culture. Her work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Departures, Forbes, The Week, Business Insider, TripSavvy, The Daily Beast, World Travel Magazine, Tasting Table, Elite Daily, Popsugar, Brit + Co, Go Overseas, Quest Magazine, and the Recorder Newspapers, where she began her career as a reporter. She earned her master’s degree with honours in literature from the New School.

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Katherine Parker-Magyar

Resources, Tips & Tricks:

  • Look into having your hotel ship your valuable items or possible items like knives and swords that could be taken away at customs. Even though it’s a souvenirs rules around what accepted and not accepted differ from airport to airport
  • Being upfront with security about what’s in your suitcase can possibly cause an alarm to go off
  • Look at what allowed in your carryon and things differ from country to country
  • Label where you bought things so you can remember where everything came from.

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Christopher Rudder

Show Host Christopher Rudder is no stranger to being on a microphone. As a former hip hop artist, he spent several hours in recording booths and on stage performing. After travel became the new epicentre of his life he lent his calming, deep and distinctive radio voice to the narration of his travel videos as well as co-hosting other non-related travel podcasts. Chris can but funny, witty and quick with his tongue but equally charming, compassionate and sensitive depending on the direction of the story. When he is not hosting this show you can find him creating content over on his blogs Rudderless Travel & Road Trip Ontario, filming & editing travel videos for his YouTube channel or interacting with the members of a popular Facebook Group called Toronto Bloggers Collective as one of the admins or discussing travel in the Travel Horror Stories Facebook Group.