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

by Lansky, Doug

• ISBN13: 9781932361278
• ISBN10: 1932361278
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-16
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Summary

As everyone who's left their backyard knows, funny things happen when you hit the road. This collection of stories captures the wacky and bizarre adventures of great writers whose travels have not gone according to plan. But when things go wrong, their senses of humor come to the rescue. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
Nudity is a State of Mind	1	(11)
Alan Zweibel
Failing to Learn Japanese in Only Five Minutes	12	(5)
Dave Barry
Jugo Especial	17	(3)
Lara Naaman
Under the Spell of a Witch Doctor	20	(9)
Rory Nugent
An Irishman in Vurjinny	29	(7)
Joseph O'Connor
The Deep Fried Potato Bug	36	(7)
Richard Sterling
Down Jerky Road	43	(4)
Sophia Dembling
Bill's Stroll Through Paris	47	(11)
Bill Bryson
Dragging the Family to the Magic Kingdom	58	(7)
Caryl Rivers
A Simian in the Cinema	65	(9)
Nigel Barley
Blinded by the White	74	(4)
Mary Roach
Shipping Out	78	(18)
David Foster Wallace
The Great Goat Race	96	(8)
Peter Mayle
Out of Teheran	104	(4)
John Krich
A Holy Holiday in Hell	108	(7)
P.J. O'Rourke
The Duck of Peace	115	(13)
Carl Franz
It's Monday...So This Must Be My Tax Write-Off in London	128	(4)
Dave Barry
Of Generals and Gentlemen	132	(6)
David Arizmendi
The Great Invisible Pheasant Hunt	138	(6)
Jon Carroll
Cena	144	(2)
David Leavitt
An Alarming Time	146	(4)
Susan Storm
This Land is Mine	150	(3)
Paul William Roberts
Heeding the Call	153	(5)
Donna Marazzo
A New Tourist in Town	158	(6)
Ralph Schoenstein
Damp in the Afternoon	164	(5)
Calvin Trillin
La Entrevista (The Interview)	169	(8)
O.M. Bode
The Art of Riding a Third World Bus	177	(5)
Doug Lansky
The Wrong Number	182	(3)
Bill Bryson
Index of Contributors	185	(1)
Acknowledgments	186