Bad Tourist
eBook - ePub

Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

About this book

2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 
2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist 
2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association 
2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.

Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. SIGHTS
  7. The Love Test
  8. Scared Shitless
  9. My Mother Is My Wingman
  10. Three Hours to Burn a Body
  11. SLEEPING
  12. Hotel Cádiz
  13. Loving the Lie
  14. The Call of the Coquí
  15. Fourteen One-Night Stands
  16. EATING AND DRINKING
  17. Gone Missing
  18. One Degree of Separation
  19. The Peruvian Blackout
  20. One Hundred Boyfriends
  21. SPAS AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS
  22. Prague and the Unbearable Lousiness of the Tourist
  23. Stretching the Thigh Fat
  24. Bellagio People
  25. Knowing the Words by Heart
  26. ACTIVITIES
  27. Skiing the Fall Line
  28. The Illuminations
  29. Mating Season
  30. Jungle Love
  31. Bargaining, or the Third Stage of Grief
  32. FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
  33. In Search of Genghis Khan
  34. Odds Are
  35. The Grand Elephant Festival
  36. Coming of Age in the Guna Yala Islands
  37. GETTING THERE AND AWAY
  38. Dangerous for a Woman Alone
  39. A Wee Scottish Tour
  40. Scary Flyer
  41. El Borracho
  42. DANGERS AND ANNOYANCES
  43. The Riffraff in the Magical Kingdom
  44. Middle-Aged Vagabonding
  45. Sassy at Burning Man
  46. Hiking Home
  47. Acknowledgments
  48. Source Acknowledgments
  49. About Suzanne Roberts