I was laughing until tears into the first 12 lines. Yes, true some of the stories are not so funny and I feel some of them really didn't belong. Over all it is a pretty good read.
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Good to get a laugh at travel "odd-I-sees"
I thought the intro to this was laugh aloud funny, as were a few of the stories. I especially liked the authors' observances of things in the Middle East and Asia, places I haven't yet visited. I got a real laugh out of the story about the women's river trip on the Colorado River, on several levels.