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C
RITICAL
A
CCLAIM FOR

S
AND IN
M
Y
B
RA

EDITED BY JENNIFER L. LEO

“A collection of ridiculous and sublime travel experiences.”

—
San Francisco Chronicle
Best-Seller List

“These snappy travel stories bursting with candor and crackling humor are sure to leave readers feeling that to not have an adventure to remember is a great loss indeed.
Sand in My Bra
will light a fire under the behinds of, as the dedication states, ‘all the women who sit at home or behind their desks bitching that they never get to go anywhere.'”

—
Publishers Weekly

“Reading about someone else's troubles can be devastatingly funny. And so we have in this volume exotic settings, language-based miscommunication, and not-always-pleasant surprises as things do not go as planned. Despite it all, our band of female travel writers laughs heartily, with pen, paper, and laptop at the quick.”

—
Chicago Tribune

“The writers in
Sand in My Bra
revel in the absurdities of life away from home. F
k epiphanies; these are the sort of yarns that leave me itching to hit the road.”

—
BUST

“Hip chicks with a flair for storytelling share travel tales in
Sand in My Bra.
From reveling in the ‘freedom to be fat' in Tahiti to cycling topless at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, the stories celebrate the unexpected joys of travel from a feminine perspective.”

—
Orlando Sentinel

“Good-natured women find the funny side of mishaps in places as far flung as the red-light district in Bangkok and a 50-pound sack race in small-town Nevada. There are plenty of laughs and—a side benefit—some handy warnings on what not to do when traveling.”

—
Portsmith Herald

“A delightfully entertaining look at atypical travel experiences.”

—
South Coast Beacon


Sand in My Bra
supplies laughs as well as a quick fix for the homebound yearning for a quick walk on the wild side.”

—
St. Petersburg Times

T
RAVELERS
' T
ALES
H
UMOR
B
OOKS

Sand in My Bra

Whose Panties Are These?

Hyenas Laughed at Me
and Now I Know Why

Not So Funny When It Happened

There's No Toilet Paper on the Road
Less Traveled

The Fire Never Dies

Last Trout in Venice

T
RAVELERS
' T
ALES

further misadventures from
funny women on the road!

T
RAVELERS
' T
ALES

further misadventures from
funny women on the road!

Edited by
JENNIFER L. LEO

Series Editors
J
AMES
O'R
EILLY AND
L
ARRY
H
ABEGGER

T
RAVELERS
' T
ALES
P
ALO
A
LTO

Copyright © 2005 Travelers'Tales, Inc. All rights reserved.

Travelers' Tales
and
Travelers' Tales Guides
are trademarks of Travelers' Tales, Inc.

Credits and copyright notices for the individual articles in this collection are given starting on page 219.

We have made every effort to trace the ownership of all copyrighted material and to secure permission from copyright holders. In the event of any question arising as to the ownership of any material, we will be pleased to make the necessary correction in future printings. Contact Travelers'Tales, Inc., 853 Alma Street, Palo Alto, California 94301.
www.travelerstales.com

Art Direction: Michele Wetherbee/Stefan Gutermuth

Interior design: Kathryn Heflin and Susan Bailey

Cover concept: Peter Ginelli

Cover Photoshop montage: © Stefan Gutermuth. Jaime McFadden at Montara State Beach, California. (No animals were harmed in the creation of this cover.)

Page layout: Cynthia Lamb using the fonts Bembo and Journal

Distributed by:
Publishers Group West, 1700 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California 94710

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The thong also rises : further misadventures from funny women on the road / edited by Jennifer L. Leo.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-9323-6182-7

1. Women travelers—Anecdotes. 2. Voyages and travels—Anecdotes. I. Leo, Jennifer. II. Title.

G465. T66 2005

910.4'082—dc22

2005017952

First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Dedicated to all the women in the world who overpack and then make someone else carry it.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Naked Nightmare

ELLEN SUSSMAN

Caribbean

An American (Drug-Smuggling) Girl

LAURIE NOTARO

Mexico-U.S. Border

Pills, Thrills, and Green Around the Gills

TAMARA SHEWARD

Laos

Cherub

GINA BRIEFS-ELGIN

Italy

And Then I Was Eight…Again

NICOLE DREON

South Dakota

Hot Date with a Yogi

JENNIFER COX

Australia

Riding the Semi-Deluxe

MEGAN LYLES

India

The Princess and the Pee

JULIE EISENBERG

At Sea

Gently You Have to Avoid a Frightening Behavior

MARCY GORDON

Italy

Paris, Third Time Around

AYUN HALLIDAY

Paris

The Dangers of Going Local

OLIVIA EDWARD

China

Opera for Dummies

SHARI CAUDRON

Prague

His and Her Vacations

JILL CONNER BROWNE

The Female Psyche

The Yellow Lady

KATIE McLANE

Mexico

Lifelike

SUSAN ORLEAN

Illinois

My Husband Is Lost Without Me

ANASTASIA M. ASHMAN

New York

Mother and Child (and Disco) Reunion

LAURIE FRANKEL

American Road Trip

The Ravioli Man

ELIZABETH FONSECA

Paris

The Education of a Guinea Pig

COLLEEN FRIESEN

Guatemala

Keys to the Outback

LAURIE McANDISH KING

Australia

Almost Grounded

DEANNA SUKKAR

Laos

The Naked and the Wed

ELIZABETH ASDORIAN

Jamaica

Just Another Malibu Minnie

AMY C. BALFOUR

California

Blinded by Science

MELINDA MISURACA

Thailand

Travel Light, Ride Hard

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