Some of the stories here made me roar with laughter... and others just freaked me out! Luckily, none of them have put me off the idea of travel!!! Hopefully a new reader will find these just as entertaining!

Synopsis...
'From Ecuador to London, from Morocco to Brazil, from California to Indonesia, bad things can strike a traveller anytime. Illness, imprisonment, mistaken identities, riots, close encounters with bears, foreign toilet ettiquette and stewed rat, it's all in this collection of travel disasters.'

Sent off to Ri a few days ago as part of the BookObsessed travel swap! Hope you enjoy this one!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing to Ri for the Armchair Travel Swap!

So sorry for the delay in journaling this book! It has been sitting on my side table for about a month and I am just now getting to it - well holiday decorating and cleaning reminded me to do it. It gave me a nice little break! ;) Thanks again for this book. I love to armchair travel!

I finally got around to reading this one and I'm so glad I did! Some of these tales are uproariously funny! Others certainly made me cringe and be glad I wasn't along on that travel experience! All of them, though, made me appreciate the work that goes into creating the Lonely Planet guides which have helped me travel in Africa and Asia.

I'm adding this one to thegoaliegirl's travel book box.

This looks like fun - it's always entertaining to read about someone else's disasters while thankful that they aren't happening to you! Taking this one out of thegoaliegirl's travel bookbox; thanks for sharing! [The acting bookbox journal is 101 Things To Be Thankful For.]

Very entertaining (and sometimes gut-wrenching) collection here! Most of the accounts had at least some elements of humor, and all serve as cautionary tales, whether it's "Don't eat the rat" or "Don't lose your travel papers". [Clearly, some countries are a lot harder to get out of than others if you don't have proper documentation!] And the very sobering account of a fatal accident on a pyramid, of an innocent man beaten and jailed by a corrupt police force - not that accidents and corruption don't occur closer to home.

Many scenarios are sufficiently possible that they left me wondering what I'd do in that situation: What if your traveling companion turns out to be of interest to the local police? What if a strike leaves you stranded for days turning into weeks? What if the bus you're in starts plummeting down the hill without brakes?

And then you get one that opens with "It was midnight. I was naked. And I was fixing my bike in a hotel room in France." That one is something that I sincerely doubt I'll ever have to cope with {grin}.

Kleptomaniac dingos, broken bridgework, high-tech toilets, benign (?) kidnappers [they use kidnapping as a way to fill the family guest house], hat-stealing hawks... Travel has its ups and downs!

I plan to leave this book on one of the benches in front of La Carreta (my favorite local Mexican restaurant) at about 6:30 or so. Hope the finder enjoys it!

What a neat idea. Looking forward to reading it.