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

10 best books like Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Jennifer L. Leo): Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0 (Travelers' Tales Guides), I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure

Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805082093
From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel

Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through...
Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0 (Travelers' Tales Guides)
AuthorRolf Potts
ISBN1932361618
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications...
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
AuthorRoger Rapoport
ISBN1571430148
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
AuthorMireya Mayor
ISBN1426207212
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274571
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
AuthorFaith Conlon
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
AuthorAlice Steinbach
ISBN0812973607
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again....
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
AuthorChristina Henry De Tessan
ISBN1580050700
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN1932361448
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
AuthorAyun Halliday
ISBN1580050972
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,...
100 Places Every Woman Should Go
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN1932361472
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
AuthorRita Golden Gelman
ISBN0307588017
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
AuthorBeth Whitman
ISBN0978728092
This comprehensive guide for women travelers is filled with safety tips, anecdotes, resources and information on how to start planning a dream journey. The book dispels the myths that solo travel is dangerous and provides straightforward advice on making the most of your travels while having the...
Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1885211155

This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0679740309
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
More Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road, Again!
AuthorJulia Weiler
ISBN1932361502
Following on the heels of the best-selling Sand in My Bra, this sequel is a collection of hilarious women's travel stories. From Australia to Zambia and everywhere in between, these true stories are full of bust-a-gut laughter. Nothing helps a travel story more than something going wrong — the frustration,...
There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorDoug Lansky
ISBN1932361278
The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale — and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories...
By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure
AuthorDon George
ISBN1741046068
Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, these experiences can give birth to our most profound travel lessons and illuminations,...
The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road
AuthorKate Chynoweth
ISBN1580051413
If they could it do it all over again, they might not... so it's a good thing they can't, because then we wouldn t hear about Marrit Ingman s disastrous honeymoon in Maui; Sunset editor Allison Aves s eco-escapades in Costa Rica, where she meddled in the love unions of nesting turtles, catching eggs as they...
The Smart Traveler's Passport
AuthorErik Torkells
ISBN1594741778
Travel Smart!
 
The Smart Traveler’s Passport is a collection of 399 of the best travel tips you’ll ever read, compiled from the pages of Budget Travel magazine. You’ll learn:
 
     •  13 different uses for Ziploc bags
     •  How dental floss can...
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
AuthorJake Halpern
ISBN0618446621
“Part travelogue . . . part meditation on the meaning of home” (Wall Street Journal), Braving Home introduces readers to some of modern America’s most unusual, unforgettable pioneers. The cub reporter Jake Halpern — dubbed the Bad Homes Correspondent by his colleagues — sets out on a journey...
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger
AuthorWendy Dale
ISBN0609809830
From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (the guerillas were using the track again today), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (the good news was that they were small bombs), Wendy somehow manages to find herself...
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