Wake Up and Smell the Shit

Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters, Monstrous Toilets, and a Demon Dildo, published by Travelers’ Tales (USA) and edited by Kirsten Koza: the best price for a new paperback is at the publisher’s bookshop, and it is always available as an ebook on Amazon, and on Kobo, and also at Barnes & Noble, Amazon Canada, ibooks, at fine independent bookstores, and in libraries.

You can read the first five chapters for free on Google Play.

Stand back! The 31 tales in this raunchy round-the-world romp might get you dirty.

We’ve all had unspeakable experiences while traveling that we’re ashamed to admit, but these often become our best stories in the retelling. The writers in this collection cast inhibition aside and reveal their weirdest and worst moments and how they made the best of them. And memorable moments in exotic destinations come in all shapes and sizes: insects as big as Pam Anderson’s left tit, regrettable sex, stink-eyed officials, horrible healers, Lady Gaga’s shoes and Madonna’s special meal, trigger-happy militants, and peeping Tom rock stars.

Adventure vicariously as:

Spud Hilton (not Monty Python) finds the Holy Grail by accident in Spain.
Meghan Ward squats, and then the toilet grunts back, in Goa.
Kasha Rigby proved how tough she is on National Geographic’s Ultimate Survival Alaska, but is she a match for a 90-year-old bone breaker in Guatemala?
Namibians stereotype Chinese men as Bruce Lee—Gerald Yeung wonders if attacking baboons will do the same.
Keph Senett (hoping not to follow in the footsteps of Pussy Riot) braves bombs, police and a Soviet-era sofa bed to play soccer at the LGBT games in Putin’s Russia.
Jabba-the-Turd versus Shannon Bradford in an epic showdown in Argentina.

And many more…

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction
Don’t Push the Button!
KIRSTEN KOZA (Editor)
Kyrgyzstan and Canada

Kap’n Cy
GARY BUSLIK
Amsterdam

You Go in the Morning, I Go at Night
EMMA THIEME
Caribbean Sea

The Wind that Shakes the Barley
JOHANNA GOHMANN
Dublin

If Pigs Could Fly
MEGHAN WARD
Goa, India

When the Empire Strikes Back
PAULA LEE
England and France

Costa Rican Red and a Golden Shower
BETH MERCER
Nosara, Costa Rica

A Real Good Deal
DANA TALUSANI
Cancún

The Battle of Waterkloof
GERALD YEUNG
Namibia