Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist - Softcover

Peters, Cash

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762727144 ISBN 13: 9780762727148

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, 2003

Synopsis

A collection of affectionately witty accounts of some of Cash Peter's more ridiculous journeys as he makes his way, road weary and on a shoestring budget, across the United States in search of places most of us would never wish to visit. He understands that every attraction - however tacky, mediocre, or, in some cases, utterly tasteless and appalling it may seem to an outsider - is someone's golden vision and deserves to be ridiculed with equal respect. Each essay is a sharp lesson for anyone who, like Cash, gets suckered too easily into paying good money to see Kathy's Freak Farm in San Diego or the annual Clam Squirting Contest in Oregon. Written in his self-disparaging style, the volume reveals the endless frustrations - and the ludicrous dilemmas - that make up a journalist's life on the road.

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Review:

From listener email: "You had me in stitches. Great job! Now I guess I'll have to buy one of your books." --N.D. "I worship you. I love your radio features. . . . but I do't understand how you can simultaneously be a handwriting analyst." --LS "I have decided that you really must marry me . . .It became reasonably clear tht I must propose after the Bad Taste Tour you delivered from The Precious Moments Museum." --R.L. of Indiana

From the Back Cover:

For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America for the BBC and for his hilarious and hugely popular public radio series The Bad Taste Tours.
But a guy can only take so much, and now - enough. It's over. He's done.
As he prepares to leave his travel-reporting days behind forever - good-bye, Kansas Barbed Wire Museum; au revoir, Paris sewer system; auf wiedersehen, Sound of Music locations tour - he meets an old flame in Amsterdam. Over lunch she suggests he put his experiences and observations in a book. No, he says. She persists. He refuses. She tries again. He won't budge. Then someone offers money...
The result is Gullible's Travels, a chronicle of some of Cash's wilder, more ridiculous journeys as he makes his way, often wearily and always on a shoestring budget, across the United States.
Gullible's Travels is an outrageous behind-the-scenes look at the frustrations of being a travel reporter on the road. But not just any old travel reporter - a not-very-good one. Marvel at Cash's battle with PR people, cringe at his fights with men dressed in foam costumes, pour scorn on the crummy hotels he often has to stay in, and gloat because you don't have to visit The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, the Museum of Bad Art, Graceland, The Museum of Feet or the Precious Moments Chapel, and he does.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0762727144
• ISBN 13: 9780762727148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288