There's No Toilet Paper... On the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure

Doug Lansky

Travelers' Tales, 2005 - Travel - 190 pages

The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale -- and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories include Nigel Barley escorting a monkey to the movies in Cameroon, Dave Barry vainly trying to learn more Japanese than how to order a beer, Alan Zweible high-tailing it to a nudist camp, Donna Marazzo bravely attempting to use a high-tech Italian toilet, and Richard Sterling feasting on deep-fried potato bugs in Burma. There are even practical tips here too; readers can surely learn from Mary Roach, who discovers that utilizing an Antarctic ice-sheet outhouse at the very moment a seal chooses to use its opening as a blowhole may not be the best way to start the day.

Contents

• Nudity is a State of Mind: 1
• Jugo Especial: 17
• The Deep Fried Potato Bug: 36

Bibliographic information

• Title: There's No Toilet Paper... On the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure; Travelers' Tales Guides; Travelers' tales
• Editor: Doug Lansky
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales, 2005
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Dec 17, 2010
• ISBN: 1932361278, 9781932361278
• Length: 190 pages
• Subjects: Travel / Essays & Travelogues