Everybody wants to travel. Well, almost everybody. At least somewhere, if only to grandma’s house. Everybody agrees the getting there is often a hassle, with delays, cancellations, crowds. The going while there is also often a hassle. Especially for women. Especially for women a little older, when the knees don’t bend as easily as they used to, and the hips no longer fit into Chinese stalls.
As traveler and travel planner, I’ve learned to improvise in numerous situations. I have hiked to beautiful vistas in Nepal with foul smelling closets, shared jungle accommodations in Guatemala with a scorpion, learned how to hold my headscarf on and skirt up while squatting in Iran, and prayed our armed escort in Yemen wouldn’t shoot when I wandered off into the thorn bushes.
It is the sticky situations we remember, partly because no one warned us what could or would happen. Guidebooks will tell you where and what to eat, but not where and how to poop. Yet what is the first question when the bus stops?
Everybodypoops.net intends to throw a little illumination on some often dark situations (always carry a flashlight), and pass on a few suggestions learned from my personal experiences. After all, none of us want to make the mistake of the American travelers who returned from driving around England with the notion that the English must be a very religious people because their road maps show wayside chapels all over the place.
So stay tuned, and we’ll start getting down to essentials.
Donna Zabel
DreamMaker Destinations
www.dreammaker.org
www.everybodypoops.net
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