num_pages: 216
description: 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.
language: English
title: There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
titlecomplete: There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales Guides)
genres: Essays, Short Stories, Travel, Comedy, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Adventure, Memoir, Humor
ratings_count: 511
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Humor
publisher: Travelers' Tales