I Really Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Journeys from Harare to Eternity (Travel Literature Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571430814 ISBN 13: 9781571430816

Publisher: Rdr Books, 2001

Synopsis

The trip of a lifetime, or a life sentence?

Disasters that can't wait to happen are guaranteed to make you unfasten your seatbelt for the belly laugh of the travel season. As you try to figure out why your wallet just disappeared, relax and be glad you weren't along for the ride with...

Marius Bosc as the entire waitstaff of a New York restaurant began attacking him after he tried to send back his lo mein.

Claudia Capos as she sat down to a splendid anteater served for a Tasmanian Thanksgiving.

Brooke Comer hitching a ride through Upper Egypt on top of a pickup bed full of unripe melons.

Matthew FIke when a coed in one of his English classes in Bulgaria announced "I need to be with you in your bed."

Nadine Payne when she was kicked off Romania's "Orient Distress" on a rail line in the middle of nowhere.

Cameron Burns on his honeymoon as his wife discovered a poisonous eight-inch long scorpion crawling down her blue cotton t-shirt. Zona Sage as she and a flight crew worked feverishly to track down a putrid smell that makes a jet's interior smell like a sewer.

Larry Parker as a stream of overnight freight trains rolled past the window of his Oregon bed and breakfast.

Carole Dickerson shipwrecked with her family on a dream vacation.

William Douglass as monkeys danced about his Kenya lodge room in his wife Jan's nightgown.

A welcome addition to the literature of the damned, this book rolls up the welcome mat as it makes you rethink those vacation plans. Yes, in this outragenously funny anthology of vacation horror stories you'll spend one too many nights in Tunisia and flee nightmarish holidays that stretch from Harare to Eternity.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The sequel to the national bestseller, I Should Haved Stayed Home, this book is the perfect book to pack for your next vacation. Hilarious, outrageous, and filled with stories you'll want to share with friends, this book shows exactly why misery loves company. Other books in this series include I've Been Gone Far Too Long: Field Trip Fiascos and Expedition Disasters and After The Death of A Salesman: Business Trips To Hell.

From Booklist:

The punny subtitle tells us pretty much all we need to know about the tone of this collection of vacation horror stories. This is a lighthearted, anecdotal book featuring stories full of oddball characters, bizarre incidents, and lots of weirdness. Here are insects that smuggle themselves into countries by hiding in vacationers' clothes; unfathomable European traffic patterns; a trip to Africa that somehow was routed through Germany; an April snowstorm in Wyoming; and other unexpected delights. A sequel to 1994's I Should Have Stayed Home, this volume does not feature as many wellknown contributors as its predecessor, and without the likes of Paul Theroux or Barbara Kingsolver, the writing loses a little in style and wit; still, the content remains fascinating in that special way that disasters are always fascinating. A solid addition to travel literature. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rdr Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1571430814
• ISBN 13: 9781571430816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Rapoport Roger, Drews Bob