Larry Habegger

Take a room full of people, artists, writers, educators, but travelers all. One volunteers, "Let me tell you about this great experience I had in the Canary Islands" and then proceeds to tell about being taken in by a family and treated like one of its members. Someone then describes a Tibetan picnic at 16,000 feet in a mountain pass, another relates being drenched with overripe tomatoes at a carnival in Spain. Others tell of travel experiences in France, the remote Chinese island of Hainan, show more and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and of special people like a leper in Nepal and an idiosyncratic Thai language teacher. They also relate events like a bus ride in rural Mexico and an encounter with a wounded pelican near Malibu. These and other personal yet very arresting stories collected by Larry Habegger and James and Sean O'Reilly make for enjoyable reading.

These stories, gathered from the editors' award-winning books in celebration of Travelers' Tales fifth year of publishing--reveal in simple and profound ways how travel is one of the best teachers anyone can have. One rarely returns from a trip unchanged, a point that is not lost on the authors of these wonderful true tales of life on the road. show less

Good anecdotal book for folks considering either moving or visiting Thailand as it touches on a lot cultural differences and good advice can be gleened from it.

India's people, terrain, culture, religions, foods, and traditions are explored in these 49 stories written by very diverse authors. The collection provides a great deal of insight about the awe, surprises, frustrations, and magic this country inspires.

A quick afternoon read but most of the stories weren't nearly as funny as their authors seemed to think they were.