If It's Such a Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting on this Airplane for Twelve Hours?

About the Book

A look at the world and traveling through the eyes of Mad Dog. Culled from his weekly humor columns, “If It’s Such A Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting On This Airplane For Twelve Hours?” includes fifty-three humorous, unique, and insightful glimpses into different people, places, and cultures. There are tales from a four-week car trip across the United States, including visits to the Voodoo Museum, Graceland, and Bongo Java, a coffee house with a cinnamon bun that looks like Mother Theresa. There’s the journal from his two-month stay in St-Malo, France, where he discovered why he, as an American, was getting the cold shoulder. And it wasn’t because of his bad Jerry Lewis imitation. From meeting a Russian spy in Cuba to visiting the true Funny Farm in Oregon, from being a camping weenie to eating weenies while camping, his skewed view of the world will leave you laughing and nodding in agreement. Chapters include:

· An American Mad Dog In London

· Slugging It Out In Oregon

· Seeing The World Through A Viewfinder

· It’s North, It’s White, But Is It Great?

· Rules For Eating On The Road

· Roughing It

· Why Americans Get A Bad Rap

· A Trip To The Funny Farm

· A Mad Dog In Bretagne

· Philadelphia Phatness

· Airports: Size Does Matter

· Czeching Out Prague

· Aloha, Oy Vey!

· Playing Tourist

· From Sea To Shining Sea

· It’s The Culture, Stupid

· Brand New Roadside Attractions

· Havana, 1995

· The Summer Of Safe Love

· Home Is Where Your Passport Is

· Dogestan, The Official City Of The New Millennium™

· Scenes From The Desert

· Littering The Streets With Art

· Bali, Hi!

· It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll, N’est Pas?

· A Summer Vacation Guide

· Fear And Loafing Outside Of Las Vegas

· The Truth About Stereotypes

· Tourist Attractions Of The Future

· It’s Freezing Over, Is It Hell?

· Sign Here

· I Left My Heart In A Casino That Looks Like San Francisco

· Motto-Less In Iowa

· Carless In Detroit

· I Saw London, I Saw France

· Inertia Is Your Enemy

About the Author

Mad Dog has been writing a weekly humor column, “Doing It Doggy Style”, since 1994. It can be found in better newspapers across the country or online at www.maddogproductions.com.