Full name: Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road

Author: Jennifer L. Leo Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Humor, Essays, Memoirs, Short Stories, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781885211927 1885211929

Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but...oh the stories that follow! For the 25 women in this book who packed their sense of humor as they traveled from Alaska to Zanzibar, the journey brought tales of misadventure that their children and grandchildren, and readers of this book, will never forget. Smile, chuckle, and laugh out loud to the candid and comical accounts of these memorable trips. Brigid Kelso gets bitten and beaten by a healer possessed by a goddess in Kathmandu in "Llamo Dolkar" "Fifteen Minutes Can Last Forever" when JoAnn Hornak is being chased by a herd of fifty African elephants Ellen Degeneres's fear of flying comes out in ripe language shocking the nun in the next seat in "The Plane Truth" "Herbal Girl" Deborah Bear tests the strength of ginger when sea sickness overcomes her on a not-so-idyllic voyage Sandra Tsing Loh vacations in "Tahiti!" where she finds the freedom to be fat "A Prude in Patpong," Jennifer Leo discovers the outrageous world of Bangkok's sex shows Cooking up a "Rainbow Special" in Guatemala, Cara Tabachnick inadvertantly poisons her new friends with explosive and hilarious results Similar books: Whose Panties are These? by Jennifer L. Leo Gullible's Travels by Cash Peters The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore Fresh-Air Fiend by Paul Theroux The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer by Eric Hansen Hold the Enlightenment by Tim Cahill A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill AA Gill is Away by A. A. Gill No Touch Monkey! by Ayun Halliday Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford The Global Soul by Pico Iyer Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy Sunrise With Seamonsters by Paul Theroux Jaguars Ripped My Flesh by Tim Cahill An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington Three Ways to Capsize a Boat by Chris Stewart Travels with My Donkey by Tim Moore Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Golden Gelman Headhunters on My Doorstep by J. Maarten Troost