No 11 MAY 2015

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 11 MAY 2015ISSN 2374-4375

Copyright © 2015 Michael Brein, Inc.All rights reserved

Michael Brein, Inc.403 Madison Ave North, Suite 101Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 USA

www.michaelbrein.com

Written by Michael Brein, Ph.D.Illustrated by Ted KellerPhotos by Michael Brein

Part of The Travel Psychologist SeriesNote: Some navigational features may not be available on all

devices.

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 in-cluding 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.

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 11 MAY 2015ISSN 2374-4375

Copyright © 2015 Michael Brein, Inc.All rights reserved

Michael Brein, Inc.403 Madison Ave North, Suite 101Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 USA

www.michaelbrein.com

Written by Michael Brein, Ph.D.Illustrated by Ted KellerPhotos by Michael Brein

Part of The Travel Psychologist SeriesNote: Some navigational features may not be available on all

devices.

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 in-cluding 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. 11 MAY 2015

Midnight MadnessBanned for Life

Die Deutsche PolizeiMayhem on the Metro

The Paris MetroRome Light RailMidday Express

The CheatDoppelgänger 2

Sing-Song of AustraliaWhen in Rome

The Taxicab from HellDriving Me Crazy

The ‘Lujo’ BusAmerica's Greyhounds

Lost in NevadaThe Speed Trap

A Car Called ‘Lucky’My Life as a VW Bus

The Businessman

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.

About the AuthorIn this Issue

No. 11 MAY 2015

Midnight MadnessBanned for Life

Die Deutsche PolizeiMayhem on the Metro

The Paris MetroRome Light RailMidday Express

The CheatDoppelgänger 2

Sing-Song of AustraliaWhen in Rome

The Taxicab from HellDriving Me Crazy

The ‘Lujo’ BusAmerica's Greyhounds

Lost in NevadaThe Speed Trap

A Car Called ‘Lucky’My Life as a VW Bus

The Businessman

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.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles Remember the funny movie with John Candy called “Planes, Trains and Automobiles?” Well, actually, trains, buses, cars, taxis, VW buses, vans, tuk-tuks, camels and other miscellaneous transport-related stories are what this issue of Travel Tales Monthly is all about. Not air-planes and ships stories this time, mind you; these are covered elsewhere in the Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series with ebooks specifically devoted to these particular subjects. In this Issue A train, bus, car, ship, airplane, taxi or other form of travel transport is invariably in the news today. And so it is: there’s hardly a day now that a transportation-related incident or accident of some sort or another is not in the news somewhere. Therefore, we’re a lot more concerned about the modes of transport that form a very significant part of our travel lives, so, naturally, we're taking a lot closer look at our travel transport these days than we have ever done before. And regarding the psychology of travel, in particular, we should take a much closer look at what actually happens to us on the various forms of transport that we take in our travels and how this all impacts our travel-lives. And so, in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, this is exactly what I do. Transportation stories include the full range of the human land, sea, and air travel transport experience, including a

variety of forms of travel transportation. From our departures, through our on board experiences, to our arrivals at our destinations, there is the potential for all sorts of incidents to impact our travels. Transportation is now more in the public eye than ever before. Thus, it is no wonder now that regarding the ex-perience of transport we are not only more circumspect than ever before—we are, on closer view, now much more aware of how our transportation experiences are now seen to elicit the full range of the human experience. And in this one particular unique microcosmic window of scrutiny we see that transportation is but one unique travel environment in a cornucopia of many others, and one that is neither unimportant, insignificant, indistinct, nor independent with respect to the overall experience of travel. Love it, hate it, or simply endure it, the lure of getting to somewhere, whether as just a means to a place or as an end in and of itself, the activity of moving about from A to B, per se—transportation travel stories not only en-dure, they are on the increase. Whether you've survived a scary transportation incident, been scared speechless by drivers or harassed by them because you failed to negotiate your price—and a host of a lot more things that happen to you the course of your transport, your transportation travel tales are memor-able, and it is my personal mission that some of them are repeated here! Your travel transportation stories deserve to be told, and

Planes, Trains & Automobiles Remember the funny movie with John Candy called “Planes, Trains and Automobiles?” Well, actually, trains, buses, cars, taxis, VW buses, vans, tuk-tuks, camels and other miscellaneous transport-related stories are what this issue of Travel Tales Monthly is all about. Not air-planes and ships stories this time, mind you; these are covered elsewhere in the Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series with ebooks specifically devoted to these particular subjects. In this Issue A train, bus, car, ship, airplane, taxi or other form of travel transport is invariably in the news today. And so it is: there’s hardly a day now that a transportation-related incident or accident of some sort or another is not in the news somewhere. Therefore, we’re a lot more concerned about the modes of transport that form a very significant part of our travel lives, so, naturally, we're taking a lot closer look at our travel transport these days than we have ever done before. And regarding the psychology of travel, in particular, we should take a much closer look at what actually happens to us on the various forms of transport that we take in our travels and how this all impacts our travel-lives. And so, in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, this is exactly what I do. Transportation stories include the full range of the human land, sea, and air travel transport experience, including a

variety of forms of travel transportation. From our departures, through our on board experiences, to our arrivals at our destinations, there is the potential for all sorts of incidents to impact our travels. Transportation is now more in the public eye than ever before. Thus, it is no wonder now that regarding the ex-perience of transport we are not only more circumspect than ever before—we are, on closer view, now much more aware of how our transportation experiences are now seen to elicit the full range of the human experience. And in this one particular unique microcosmic window of scrutiny we see that transportation is but one unique travel environment in a cornucopia of many others, and one that is neither unimportant, insignificant, indistinct, nor independent with respect to the overall experience of travel. Love it, hate it, or simply endure it, the lure of getting to somewhere, whether as just a means to a place or as an end in and of itself, the activity of moving about from A to B, per se—transportation travel stories not only en-dure, they are on the increase. Whether you've survived a scary transportation incident, been scared speechless by drivers or harassed by them because you failed to negotiate your price—and a host of a lot more things that happen to you the course of your transport, your transportation travel tales are memor-able, and it is my personal mission that some of them are repeated here! Your travel transportation stories deserve to be told, and

some of them appear here in this issue. Please enjoy the selection of transportation travel stories in issue No. 11 May 2015 of Travel Tales Monthly. Introduction to Travel Tales of Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

Part 1 Travel tales of transportation is divided, for the time be-ing, into two parts simply because there is so much ma-terial. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 10 April 2015 and serves as a general intro-duction to this subject matter. Part 2 The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, part of The Tra-vel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2. Basically, it will include more of best travel stories within the first batch of the original collection of recorded travel tales. The travel stories in Part 1 consist mainly of the most interesting travel tales of Michael Brein (me), the author plus some other contributors, which have appeared so far in my Travel Tales Monthly and Travel Tales Collections series. The travel stories in Part 2 contain, additionally, some of the best and greatest stories of world travelers and ad-venturers whom I’ve encountered and interviewed

throughout my travels over the last four decades to 125 countries. These additional stories will not have yet appeared in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series. Mostly your travels will typically be fairly exciting and interesting, but not necessarily deep and profound. Some of your travels will no doubt be great, meaningful, and memorable, though, not necessarily life-changing or life-threatening by any means. But truly astounding and memorable things can happen to you at almost any turn along the way. I hope truly momentous travel events of the good kind happen to you, and those of the bad kind do not. And I sincerely hope that the great selection of travel tales that appear in these pages will give you pause to think about your life and your travels and give you a hopeful hint of what possibly lies in store for you in your own future travels. If something fantastic and interesting happens to you, you deserve to also be in these pages! Got a great travel tale for The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series? Please contact Michael Brein at michaelbrein@gmail.com.