

Tragicomedy and the Art of Travelling Well
There are many tricks to travelling well that the seasoned traveler picks up along the way, from never leaving home without activated charcoal to how to best stash cash and avoid falling victim to clever thieves. But when abroad, the one thing one cannot simply purchase at the chemist and yet is as essential to the wandering spirit as charcoal is to the besieged belly, is a sense of humor, and in third world countries in particular, a sense of the tragicomic. For in countries