12-7-09 No Touch Monkey! And other travel lessons leaned too late by Ayun Halliday – Non-Fiction

2 – I would never in a million years travel anywhere with this woman, not even to the nearest bus stop.  She’s way too hippy-dippy and her knowledge of the locales is as good as if I picked a spot on the map and rolled my way through the area like a D&D player.  Yes, there are some amusing points in her travels but even when those come up all you can think is “She’s a bloody idiot.”  Getting surrounded by feral dogs in the middle of a monkey forest alone at midnight isn’t a great dog travel story, it’s the mark of a moron who’s lucky she lived long enough to have children and write this book.  A definite low in my travel book reading.