There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled - Full description


"Anyone who plans to travel should read this book. And then stay home." —Dave Barry

Caught with your pants down? Don't worry you're not alone!

As everyone who's left their backyard knows, funny things happen when you hit the road in search of adventure. 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.

In There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled you will:

  • Take a monkey to the movies in Cameroon with Nigel Barley
  • Fry up some testicles in Peru for a no-good cheating boyfriend with Lara Naaman
  • Stumble through a white-out with a bucket over your head in Antarctica with Mary Roach
  • Pick the winning goat in a not-so-thoroughbred race in Provence with Peter Mayle
  • Suffer for your sins at a Christian theme park in South Carolina with P. J. O'Rourke
  • Enjoy the deep depravity of a Caribbean cruise with David Foster Wallace
  • Try to outsmart the world's most uncooperative ticket clerk with Bill Bryson in Stockholm
  • Battle a bull in a swimming pool with Calvin Trillin in the south of France...and much more.

Notable authors include: Peter Mayle, P. J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry, Mary Roach, Calvin Trillin, David Foster Wallace, Caryl Rivers, John Krich, Joseph O'Connor, and Bill Bryson.



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