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“Look at it this way,” Ford Prefect had said, “Fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you’re going to die if you don’t. That way you stay ahead. The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.”
(“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” Douglas Adams)

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How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad

The perils that face the traveler are many: natural disasters, disease, wild animals and falling guidebooks are all amongst the most common causes of death abroad but as we all ...

Malaria Travel Guide

Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.

Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.

In the 1960’s scientists were confident that malaria would soon be a ...

Travel Stomach Problems

A happy stomach basically comes down to eating well. If not then you can have every kind of indigestion, stomach cramps and gas imaginable.

Most stomach problems are caused by ...

Diarrhea Guide for the Traveler

Just about every traveller who heads to the Third World ends up experiencing diarrhea. At first the whole subject is kind of embarrassing until you discover that in many countries ...

To Drink the Local Water?

Drinking the local water was something that I once felt set me apart from the other travelers who all needed their special water in a plastic bottle tapped god knows ...

Swine Flu and the End of Travel

A couple of years ago Road Junky posted a tongue in cheek editorial about bird flu and we could almost have posted it again crossing out the word bird ...

Gamma Rays Attack Travelers in Flight

Scientists have found that gamma rays are given off by thunderstorms and that there are these tiny particles rushing around at ‘ultrarelativistc speeds’ – try getting that one out at ...

The Left Hand Toilet Technique and Spitting – World Hygiene

From Morocco to Bangladesh, use your left hand to eat with, pick stuff up in the grocery store or even worse, to shake someone else’s hand and you’ll be considered ...

Travel Product Review - Schick Quattro Titanium Trimmer

Vogelsang Mountain High Life

Somewhere high in the mountains under a curtain of doom, I embarked on a journey of mythological proportions. This journey would prove to be a test of ...

A-Z Travel Health Guide

Antibiotics – These drugs have saved millions of lives but should only be used when there’s no other alternative. Allied with the pharmaceutical mafia of the world, doctors push them ...