Publisher's preface / James O'Reilly -- Introduction / Tony Wheeler -- Bread / Nicholas Seely (Red Sea) -- The barber / Dustin W. Leavitt (Vietnam) -- Sunday dinner / Patrick Pfister (Spain) -- Blood ties / Michael Engelhard (Alaska) -- My military-industrial complex / Gary Buslik (Cuba) -- Confessions of a water pipe smoker / Carolyn A. Theriault (Egypt) -- Kick boxing for pride and peanuts / Antonio Graceffo (Thailand) -- Rilke was miserable here / Kathleen Spivak (Paris) -- Bad country / J. Spencer Klein (Costa Rica) -- Argentina on two steaks a day / Maciej Ceglowski (Argentina) -- The girl who drank petrol / Tanya Shafer (Ghana) -- Mr. Hat's neighborhood / Richard Sterling (Saigon) -- Dervishes / Rory Stewart (Pakistan) -- At the foot of Mount Yasur / Usha Alexander (Vanuatu) -- Only fish / Bonnie Smetts (Italy) -- Granpere / Ken Matusow (Mali) -- Smackdown in Tijuana / Jim Benning (Mexico) -- The Howrah-Puri Express / Gregory Kennedy (India) -- Immortality and the art of losing it / Thaddeus Laird (New Zealand) -- Over there / Paul Theroux (Zambia) -- The Mexican taco stand / Picket Porterfield (Mexico) -- A visit to Dixieland / Hunter James (North Carolina) -- Next year in Germany / Robert L. Strauss (Germany) -- The purple umbrella / Karin Muller (Japan) -- The adventure of La Refrita / Steve King (South Dakota) -- Fishing with Larry / Tom Joseph (Bolivia) -- The Mukhtar and I / Michel Moushabeck (Jerusalem).