travel tales monthly - no 9 mar 2015

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 9 MAR 2015ISSN 2374-4375

Michael Brein, Inc.403 Madison Ave North, Suite 101Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 USA

www.michaelbrein.com

Written by Michael Brein, Ph.D.Illustrated by Ted KellerPhotos by Michael Brein

Part of The Travel Psychologist SeriesNote: Some navigational features may not be available on all

devices.

Over the last four decades, I've interviewed nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers in my own tra-vels to more than 125 countries throughout the world. I am weaving their 10,000 or so fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories.

These are travelers I've met on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, cafes, and pubs. These travelers have freely shared their most personal travel tales with me, which I, in turn, get to share with you now through my Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, in general, and the Travel Tales Monthly, here, in particular.

Each month a selection of noteworthy travel tales in-cluding stories and brief vignettes will appear in Travel Tales Monthly as a waypoint along their way into the ebooks in my series.

Travel tales are told here — but with this one unique difference — with my being the world's first travel psy-chologist, you'll get more of the psychological pay dirt behind the incredible travel tales told to me by these travelers.

About Travel Tales Monthly

Note: Some stories may be repeated in other ebooks in the series depending on the countries and subjects covered.

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 9 MAR 2015ISSN 2374-4375

Michael Brein, Inc.403 Madison Ave North, Suite 101Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 USA

www.michaelbrein.com

Written by Michael Brein, Ph.D.Illustrated by Ted KellerPhotos by Michael Brein

Part of The Travel Psychologist SeriesNote: Some navigational features may not be available on all

devices.

Over the last four decades, I've interviewed nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers in my own tra-vels to more than 125 countries throughout the world. I am weaving their 10,000 or so fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories.

These are travelers I've met on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, cafes, and pubs. These travelers have freely shared their most personal travel tales with me, which I, in turn, get to share with you now through my Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, in general, and the Travel Tales Monthly, here, in particular.

Each month a selection of noteworthy travel tales in-cluding stories and brief vignettes will appear in Travel Tales Monthly as a waypoint along their way into the ebooks in my series.

Travel tales are told here — but with this one unique difference — with my being the world's first travel psy-chologist, you'll get more of the psychological pay dirt behind the incredible travel tales told to me by these travelers.

About Travel Tales Monthly

Note: Some stories may be repeated in other ebooks in the series depending on the countries and subjects covered.

About the AuthorIn this Issue

No. 9 MAR 2015The Wink

Looking for Lions in all the Wrong PlacesThe Forgotten BagMidnight MadnessThe Hotel UkraineThe Milk Missile

The Peterhof FountainThe Bungee Jump

El Macho!There's a Little Bit of

Lion in all of UsTruth or Dare!

Midday ExpressThe Travelocity Gnome

On Spotting ElvisOld (Un) Faithful

Travels of a ‘Verbomaniac’Going Bonkers in Hawaii

Sex-Crazed in Poland

Michael Brein, aka ‘The Travel Psychologist,’ is an author, lecturer, travel storyteller, adventurer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He regularly appears in newspapers, ma-gazines, blogs, and radio programs on the psychology of travel.

Michael is the first to coin the term travel psychology. As such, through his doctoral studies, work and life experiences, and world travels, he has become the world's first — and perhaps only — travel psychologist.

Michael publishes travel tales ebooks — collections of stories on a specific travel subject, theme, or country: Travel Tales Monthly — a monthly, sort of book-of-the-month potpourri, bookazine of particularly good travel stories, and Collections — groups of similar kinds of travel stories at a time on very specific subjects, themes, and countries of interest.

Michael Brein resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

You can view ‘The Travel Psychologist’ blog and website at www.michaebrein.com.

You may email Michael at [email protected].

FuckingHumplefunker

The Todavia WomanDoppelganger 2

The Generalissimo's Daughter

Fruits de la MerLes Ugly Americains

Chicken?Chicken Vindaloo

Two Coconuts in AcapulcoDiscovering the Bidet

The Incontinence AwardsThe Men's Room

Frommage a Trois!Sing-Song of Australia

When in RomeThe Speed TrapThe High Profiler

Top Secret

About the AuthorIn this Issue

No. 9 MAR 2015The Wink

Looking for Lions in all the Wrong PlacesThe Forgotten BagMidnight MadnessThe Hotel UkraineThe Milk Missile

The Peterhof FountainThe Bungee Jump

El Macho!There's a Little Bit of

Lion in all of UsTruth or Dare!

Midday ExpressThe Travelocity Gnome

On Spotting ElvisOld (Un) Faithful

Travels of a ‘Verbomaniac’Going Bonkers in Hawaii

Sex-Crazed in Poland

Michael Brein, aka ‘The Travel Psychologist,’ is an author, lecturer, travel storyteller, adventurer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He regularly appears in newspapers, ma-gazines, blogs, and radio programs on the psychology of travel.

Michael is the first to coin the term travel psychology. As such, through his doctoral studies, work and life experiences, and world travels, he has become the world's first — and perhaps only — travel psychologist.

Michael publishes travel tales ebooks — collections of stories on a specific travel subject, theme, or country: Travel Tales Monthly — a monthly, sort of book-of-the-month potpourri, bookazine of particularly good travel stories, and Collections — groups of similar kinds of travel stories at a time on very specific subjects, themes, and countries of interest.

Michael Brein resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

You can view ‘The Travel Psychologist’ blog and website at www.michaebrein.com.

You may email Michael at [email protected].

FuckingHumplefunker

The Todavia WomanDoppelganger 2

The Generalissimo's Daughter

Fruits de la MerLes Ugly Americains

Chicken?Chicken Vindaloo

Two Coconuts in AcapulcoDiscovering the Bidet

The Incontinence AwardsThe Men's Room

Frommage a Trois!Sing-Song of Australia

When in RomeThe Speed TrapThe High Profiler

Top Secret

In this Issue

Why not laugh yourself silly with this collection of funny, hila-rious, gut-wrenching, LOL (laugh out loud) travel humor. Oh yeah, we do our fair share of ridiculous, raucous, belly-ach-ingly funny things when we travel. And, I ask you: is this NOT one of the most important goals of travel—to laugh ourselves stupid?

Thank God, the funny happens more than the horrific; the lu-dicrous more than the lame—travel is never boring and never lacking in wonderful, memorable funny causes célèbre that stay with us for the rest of our lives.

Whether falling through someone's roof on a horse in Afgha-nistan; whether getting soaked by taunting the ‘fountain gods’ on a lawn at a castle; whether being thrown out of a restau-rant in Buenos Aires for dancing on the tops of tables; whe-ther chilling your wine in a bidet, the funniest travel moments that make you laugh are a welcome counter to those rare horrible travel events that make you cry. And it is also these memorable stories that remain with us, isn’t it, after all is said and done, in our travels?

Feel free to laugh out loud with these travel tales of humor presented here in this current issue of Travel Tales Monthly.

For many people, life is all about getting laid, lauded or load-ed, but for many of us, it is more about sampling the lives, the cultures, the oddities, the sights, the sounds, the foods, the drinks, and the humor of the peoples of other lands.

For me, it is all of the above, but it is also about laughter.

I like to laugh much of the time, and probably would ALL of the time if I could. Laughing abroad is what makes travel especially memorable for us. Of course, we remember the times that we cry; but we do, indeed, remember the times that we laugh.

Introduction to Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories.

Part 1

Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 9 Mar 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this subject matter.

Part 2

The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories, part of The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2.

(For more on the forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories see page 9 in this issue of Travel Tales Monthly)

The travel stories in Part 1 consist mainly of the funniest personal travel tales of Michael Brein (me), the author. The travel stories in Part 2 are, largely, the funniest stories of world travelers and adventurers whom I’ve encountered and interviewed throughout my travels over the last four decades to 125 countries.

In this Issue

Why not laugh yourself silly with this collection of funny, hila-rious, gut-wrenching, LOL (laugh out loud) travel humor. Oh yeah, we do our fair share of ridiculous, raucous, belly-ach-ingly funny things when we travel. And, I ask you: is this NOT one of the most important goals of travel—to laugh ourselves stupid?

Thank God, the funny happens more than the horrific; the lu-dicrous more than the lame—travel is never boring and never lacking in wonderful, memorable funny causes célèbre that stay with us for the rest of our lives.

Whether falling through someone's roof on a horse in Afgha-nistan; whether getting soaked by taunting the ‘fountain gods’ on a lawn at a castle; whether being thrown out of a restau-rant in Buenos Aires for dancing on the tops of tables; whe-ther chilling your wine in a bidet, the funniest travel moments that make you laugh are a welcome counter to those rare horrible travel events that make you cry. And it is also these memorable stories that remain with us, isn’t it, after all is said and done, in our travels?

Feel free to laugh out loud with these travel tales of humor presented here in this current issue of Travel Tales Monthly.

For many people, life is all about getting laid, lauded or load-ed, but for many of us, it is more about sampling the lives, the cultures, the oddities, the sights, the sounds, the foods, the drinks, and the humor of the peoples of other lands.

For me, it is all of the above, but it is also about laughter.

I like to laugh much of the time, and probably would ALL of the time if I could. Laughing abroad is what makes travel especially memorable for us. Of course, we remember the times that we cry; but we do, indeed, remember the times that we laugh.

Introduction to Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories.

Part 1

Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 9 Mar 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this subject matter.

Part 2

The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories, part of The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2.

(For more on the forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Humor: Funny Stories see page 9 in this issue of Travel Tales Monthly)

The travel stories in Part 1 consist mainly of the funniest personal travel tales of Michael Brein (me), the author. The travel stories in Part 2 are, largely, the funniest stories of world travelers and adventurers whom I’ve encountered and interviewed throughout my travels over the last four decades to 125 countries.

Mostly your travels will typically be exciting and interesting, but funny things can and do happen to you at almost any turn along the way. The freedom from the typical constraints of home that travel offers us allows us to act and behave in ways that are often atypical and different from how we nor-mally behave at home.

Thus, in travel, we can take a few more risks and chances and do a few more silly and funny things that we might not ordinarily do at home. With this expanded propensity for more silliness, of course, comes the opportunity for more funny times, more laughs, and more great memories.

For me, I’ve found that I’ve reveled in acting out the ‘Fool’ or the ‘Clown’ in my travels, very often making people laugh at my own expense. It is all in good fun. I’m not typically like this at home but more so in my travels.

I hope laughable events happen to you a lot. I sincerely hope that the funny travel tales of humor that appear in these pa-ges make you laugh and give you a hint of what lies in store for you in your own travels.

If something fantastically funny happens to you, you deserve to also be in these pages!

Got a funny travel tale for The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series?

Please contact Michael Brein at [email protected].

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