Full name: No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late

Author: Ayun Halliday Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Humor, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781580050975 1580050972

Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerrilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. On layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light districteliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam, and is forced to explain tampons to soldiers in Kashmir"they re for ladies. Bleeding ladies"that, she admits, "might have looked like white cotton bullets lined up in their box." A self-admittedly bumbling vacationer, Halliday shareswith razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effectthe travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell. Includes line drawings by the author." Similar books: Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader by Brian Thacker On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough Road Fever by Tim Cahill Gullible's Travels by Cash Peters The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore Roads by Larry McMurtry Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell Bad Trips by Keath Fraser Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington The Rough Guide to First-Time Around the World by Doug Lansky A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg 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 Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill Headhunters on My Doorstep by J. Maarten Troost