Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana Funny Travel Stories and Strange Packing Tips

by Gordon, Marcy

• ISBN13: 9781609520533
• ISBN10: 160952053X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-22
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Summary

Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana is the ninth book in the best-selling Travelers' Tales humor series, which began with There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled and blossomed into the now classic "underwear" women's humor series, including the top sellers Sand in My Bra and More Sand in My Bra. This laugh-out-loud collection will resonate with experienced travelers and novices alike and includes hilarious misadventures with packing, travel fashion, border crossings, language faux pas, weird encounters with exotic cuisine, and romantic overtures abroad.

Author Biography

Marcy Gordon writes "Come for the Wine" a popular blog about wine and wine tourism destinations around the world. In addition to her blog, she partners with tour operators, vintners associations and wineries to help promote travel to their regions using social media, and conversation marketing strategies. She is a published travel writer and worked for The Touring Club of Italy, where she was contributing editor and co-designer of the Authentic Italy guidebook series. Her narrative travel writing has been featured online on World Hum and in print in many Travelers’ Tales anthologies including Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 and 2010, More Sand in My Bra, 30 Days in Italy, and The Thong Also Rises. Her background is in consumer marketing and she served as Director of Consumer Marketing for the development and launch of Travelocity, and as VP of Marketing for OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service that debuted in 1999. She has appeared on numerous travel writing conference panels on the topic of women's solo travel and writing from the road. She is also a frequent speaker at travel & wine tourism conferences addressing marketing strategies for small wineries and tour operators seeking to leverage their social media presence. She will be speaking at North American Wine Tourism Conference that will be held in November 2011 in Napa, California and at the International Wine Tourism Conference in Umbria, Italy in 2012.