Overview
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
You say your luxury cruise was rudely interrupted when the sheriff seized the ship for the bankruptcy court? Your best buddy won $1.2 million in Vegas and wants you to pick up the tab for champagne and caviar? While honeymooning on Kauai, you returned to your campsite to find your tent gone with the wind? Is that what's troubling you? Read this book and give thanks you weren't with . . .
Karin Palmquist as she drives her rental car through a series of shakedowns on the highway from Tallinn to Leningrad. Ellen Rubenson as her Caribbean bare boat catches fire and sinks
in 60 feet of water.
Joe Kempkes in a Turkish hospital where stabbing victims are refused food because the staff won't cash their traveler's checks.
Polly Greist as she finds the shortcut from the River of No Return to the emergency room.
Shirley Lawyer as she is nearly sliced and diced by a power boat full of peeping Toms while backstroking off Italy's Cinque Terre.
Jim Krois in Peshawar, Pakistan, as rats eat the flesh off the foot of a fellow guest at the Rainbow Hotel.
Jerry Oliver, former Detroit police chief, when Transportation Security Agency officials find a loaded handgun in his luggage.
The perfect traveling companion, I Should Have Gone Home explains why people get rained out in their search for sunny days they thought would never end. Now that the airlines have stopped serving food, you'll have plenty of time to finish this book before your flight lands Assuming, of course, that your takeoff isn't cancelled because a fellow traveler refused to let themselves be inappropriately touched by airport security while they tried to carry their nunchakus on board.
Synopsis
In about four dozen stories travel survivors explain their scars, including the trails of enterprising parasites; describe their transport, including various machines and animals; and examine their fellow travelers, including a fellow whose feet were eaten by rats. For those not inclined to travel, the contributors offer an array of reasons to never leave the recliner, but to those who are seasoned trekkers seriously committed to making new friends across this wide world, it all sound like fun. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR