Itchy Feet Travel Tales in Asia
Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.
Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain — embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity’s diversity fuel each story.
Teaching in Korea and Vietnam since 2015, Sam uses his time out of the classroom to explore the rest of Asia. His short five-book series, Itchy Feet Travel Tales in Asia, covers his adventures (and misadventures) in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
These stories of the sublime and the surreal will have you giggling and gawking as you follow Sam through the weird and wonderful world of the East.
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ITCHY FEET TRAVEL TALES IN ASIA ~ 5 BOOKS IN 1
You can order all 5 books in one convenient paperback.
BOOK ONE ~ INTERRUPTING COW
Intro ~ Burmese Leeches and Waterlogged Words
Chapter 1 ~ Dropped Call [CLICK to read this sample chapter]
Chapter 2 ~ It All Comes Out in the Wash
Chapter 3 ~ Some Like It Hot
Chapter 4 ~ Local Wildlife: Monkey Business
Chapter 5 ~ Local Wildlife: Holy Cow!
Chapter 6 ~ Welcome to China
Chapter 7 ~ Lost in Translation
Chapter 8 ~ From Breast Milk to Beer — Mongolian Drinking Stories
Chapter 9 ~ Trains, Pains, and Accidental Sightings
BOOK TWO ~ BAMBI ATE MY YEN
Chapter 1 ~ Doctor’s Orders
Chapter 2 ~ Tomato, Tomahto
Chapter 3 ~ Locker Room Talk
Chapter 4 ~ Lost in Translation: Korea
Chapter 5 ~ Haiku Hate
Chapter 6 ~ Karaoke in Japan
Chapter 7 ~ Local Wildlife: VeniZEN
Chapter 8 ~ Zeros Matter
Chapter 9 ~ Grandma’s Kimchi Recipe
Chapter 10 ~ #TeachingInKorea
Chapter 11 ~ Just the Way You Are
Chapter 12 ~ SPAM Donor
BOOK THREE ~ NO STANDING ON TOILET
Chapter 1 ~ Et Tu, Taxi Traitor?!
Chapter 2 ~ Gaspers, Grumblers, Snufflers and Snorters
Chapter 3 ~ HOSTEL
Chapter 4 ~ Still Lost in Translation
Chapter 5 ~ Local Wildlife: Who Let the Dogs Out
Chapter 6 ~ Spirited Away
Chapter 7 ~ The Rooster and the Egg
Chapter 8 ~ Everybody Poops
Chapter 9 ~ Pics or It Didn’t Happen
BOOK FOUR ~ CHEW TENTACLE THOROUGHLY
Chapter 1 ~ In an Octopus’s Garden
Chapter 2 ~ Chopsticks: Whatever Wok’s
Chapter 3 ~ Ruined Restaurants and Hidden Gems
Chapter 4 ~ Easy on the Soy Sauce, Old Man
Chapter 5 ~ A Whiter Shade of Pale
Chapter 6 ~ #TeachingInNam
Chapter 7 ~ Mr. Mufflerplucker
Chapter 8 ~ Slaughter in the School Zone
Chapter 9 ~ Racial Slurs in Context
Chapter 10 ~ Holiday in Cambodia
Chapter 11 ~ A Wet Man Never Fears the Rain [CLICK to read this sample chapter]
BOOK FIVE ~ YOU LIKE A PHO?
Chapter 1 ~ No, the Other Pho
Chapter 2 ~ Pipe Dreams
Chapter 3 ~ Betel Mania
Chapter 4 ~ I Love the Smell of Silkworm in the Morning
Chapter 5 ~ At the Movies
Chapter 6 ~ Scamburgers in Scambodia
Chapter 7 ~ Happy Pizza
Chapter 8 ~ Walkabout
Bonus chapter from upcoming new series ~ Breakfast of Champions