Introduction / Mary Morris Sex and coq au vin / Isabel Allende All the way with LBJ / Muriel Dobbin Into the Denki Furo / Jeff Greenwald Night of the army ants / Mary Mackey How I became a purveyor of caviar and champagne on the Trans-Siberian / Alev Lytle Croutier A winter's night / Eric Hansen Non-stop to London / Michael Dorris Entering paradise / Judith Greber Enlightened Sahib / Dominique Lapierre Thousand and two nights / Pico Iyer The dirt on mudbaths / Alice Kahn Borderline blues (with herpetile) / Richard Harris Not in Kansas anymore / Joe Gores I think our driver is stoned : the slow road from Istanbul to Herat / Rick Steves Maddening Madagascar / Lisa Alpine Tail end / Suzanne Lipsett Seeking the Mother of Immortal Bliss : the temple at Vallickavu / Naomi Mann Chimgan / Claudia J. Martin The first and last meal / Carole L. Peccorini And there's the rub / Stacy Ritz Sahafin Americani / Larry Collins Adrift / Joe Cummings The flight from Hell / Donald W. George Ah yi / Molly Giles Rafting the sewers of the Rhineland / Louis B. JOnes A tourist in Haiti / Larry O'Conner Travels with Suna / Shirley Streshinsky Lost and found / Tony Wheeler Poles apart / Georgia Hesse A Caribbean tale / Abigail Wine Camera Karma / Robert Holmes An African Christmas / Paul Theroux The Yi-Ching : a yarrow-ing experience / Katherine Neville The existential washing machine / Adrianne Marcus Donner Party / Scott Christopher Green Somewhere under the rainbow / Barbara Kingsolver The "Daggy" challenge / Christopher B. Baker Beltless in Bali / Burl Willes Getting away from the promised land / Evelyn Kieran Passage to India / Helen Gurley Brown First date with misadventure / Richard Bangs Libidinous Finns / Linda Watanabe McFerrin Salt Lake City by nightfall / Susan Dunlap The worst bus ride in all Mexico / Janet Fullwood The best restaurant in town? / Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini Puerto Plata : just say no / Barbara Ann Curcio All dressed up and nowhere to go / Stan Sesser Trouble in Terontola / William Petrocelli Maui for one / Roger Rapoport Rebuttal : bad things don't happen to me / Jan Morris Afterword : how this book was written
