No 7 JAN 2015

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 7 JAN 2015ISSN 2374-4375

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Over the last four decades, I've interviewed nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers in my own tra-vels to more than 125 countries throughout the world. I am weaving their 10,000 or so fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories.

These are travelers I've met on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, cafes, and pubs. These travelers have freely shared their most personal travel tales with me, which I, in turn, get to share with you now through my Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, in general, and the Travel Tales Monthly, here, in particular.

Each month a selection of noteworthy travel tales including stories and brief vignettes will appear in Travel Tales Monthly as a waypoint along their way into the ebooks in my series.

Travel tales are told here — but with this one unique difference — with my being the world's first travel psy-chologist, you'll get more of the psychological pay dirt behind the incredible travel tales told to me by these travelers.

About Travel Tales Monthly

Note: Some stories may be repeated in other eBooks in the series depending on the countries and subjects covered.

About the AuthorIn this Issue

No. 7 JAN 2015A Stab in the Darl

EscalationHair on Fire

Running from ShadowsThe ‘I Hate Italian Men Club’ #1

The Elevator Guy #1The Elevator Guy #2Ignominy in Istanbul

The RockThe ‘I Hate Italian Men Club’ #2The ‘I Hate Italian Men Club’ #3

HitchhikingThe Conductor

West Bank AssaultIntroduction to White Slavery

Disappearance #1Disappearance #2Disappearance #3Disappearance #4

Caught with Your Pats DownMeet the Parents #1Meet the Parents #2 The Rat Bag Chick

Things Happen in ThreesThe Moroccans

No Fear!

Michael Brein, aka ‘The Travel Psychologist,’ is an author, lecturer, travel storyteller, adventurer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He regularly appears in newspapers, ma-gazines, blogs, and radio programs on the psychology of travel.

Michael is the first to coin the term travel psychology. As such, through his doctoral studies, work and life experiences, and world travels, he has become the world's first — and perhaps only — travel psychologist.

Michael publishes travel tales ebooks — collections of stories on a specific travel subject, theme, or country: Travel Tales Monthly — a monthly, sort of book-of-the-month potpourri, bookazine of particularly good travel stories, and Collections — groups of similar kinds of travel stories at a time on very specific subjects, themes, and countries of interest.

Michael Brein resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

You can view ‘The Travel Psychologist’ blog and website at www.michaebrein.com.

You may email Michael at michaelbrein@gmail.com.

Introduction to this Issue

The January issue samples safety and security of the woman solo traveler (as well as women traveling together in pairs or very small groups) — the quest to achieve safe and secure, relatively comfortable, unencumbered, and unimpeded travel throughout the world.

Unfortunately, travel today for anyone, and particularly for wo-men, has increasing challenges, what with growing terror threats, the imposition of severe and strict cultural and reli-gious restrictions of women's rights and freedoms as well as the apparent decreasing tolerance for cultural and religious differences and diversity across certain borders around the world.

Introduction to Travel Tales of Women Alone: Hassles & Assaults

Part 1

Travel Tales of Women Alone: Hassles & assaults is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 7 Jan 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this sub-ject matter.

Part 2

The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Women Alone: Hassles & Assaults, part of The Travel Psy-chologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2.

(For more on the forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Women Alone see page 9 in this issue of Travel Tales Monthly)

Women traveling alone and surviving the many hassles and occasional assaults is challenging in the least. For women alone travel mostly is exciting and relatively safe, but for many women, traveling in some countries, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East can often be traumatic and downright dangerous.

I have tales of women constantly doing battle with those who would bother and hassle them. And some women, sad to say, have simply disappeared from the market place, never to be seen again.

To be a woman and to travel alone in such forbidding places is simply not for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, many young women simply do not ‘get it,’ in that they are rather naively unaware and must be exceedingly careful and very circum-spect in their interactions with men overseas.

Just because the men are well-dressed and speak your lan-guage (English), does not necessarily mean that they are to be trusted. Read these tales of women traveling alone, but be prepared for anything. Some of the tales are quite graphic.

Every woman traveling abroad NEEDS to know and prepare herself for dealing with such things. While travel is mostly ad-venturous and exciting, it can also be foreboding and down-right dangerous.

PAY ATTENTION: Look, listen, and learn!

Please, please! If you are a woman about to travel alone in the world — please at least read these pages! If I were you, I'd really want to think THRICE about traveling to some parts of the world as a woman ALONE!

Come on! It's REALLY a dangerous world out there. Yeah, yeah, it's dangerous enough to walk alone in some U.S. cities as it is, let alone in the back alleys of North Africa and many other places in the third world.

Women have shared 100s of travel stories with me about how they have had to fend off — YES, even fight off — the unwanted advances of men, ranging from verbal harassment, unwanted touching, exposure, and, yes, even rape!

I have heard more encounters by young women relating to me “Yes, I should have known better; I should have seen the signs.” And sad to say, there are some stories I've heard where women have simply disappeared out of market places, never to be seen again — presumably sold off into white slavery, even!

This is not a book designed to merely scare you — it is meant to SHOCK you into a mind space that you had better duly consider the risks and repercussions of doing any foreign trips all by your very own self!

DIRE WARNING!

The accounts in this ebook of women traveling are in some cases VERY graphic and disturbing. Be forewarned that the material contained in this ebook includes some horrific language, images, actions, and dire consequences. This ebook is meant for a mature adult audience only, yet, the material contained herein needs to be communicated in a clear and responsible manner to young and inexperienced girl/woman travelers who most definitely have a need to know how to travel more safely and securely.

women have been . . .

abandoned abducted abused accosted afraid aggressed ambushed annoyed antagonized anxious assaulted attacked badgered battered beaten beleaguered belittled bitten bothered bruised brushed bullied

bumped butchered captured caressed caught chased cornered cursed at derided detained disturbed embraced executed fearful felt felt up

fingered flashed at flogged followed fondled fought frantic frenetic frightened goosed grabbed grazed groped had close calls had great

escapes harassed hassled hated haunted hit horrified hounded hugged humiliated hunted in danger injured insulted intimidated jeered jostled jumped kidnapped killed kissed knifed laughed at leered at lynched

made fun of manhandled massacred mauled menaced mistreated mocked molested murdered nabbed nibbled nuzzled offended panicked

paranoid patted persecuted pestered pinched pinned down plagued poked punched pursued pushed raped ridiculed robbed roughed up

rubbed scared scorned seized shot slain slapped slaughtered snatched sneered sold off to white slavery stalked stoned strangled stripped

stroked struck surrounded taken taunted teased terrified threatened tormented tortured touched trapped victimized violated waylaid whistled

at wolf-whistled at, and so on

against their will . . .