No 6 DEC 2014

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 6 DEC 2014ISSN 2374-4375

Copyright © 2014 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--10 at a time--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.

Travel Tales Monthly

No. 6 DEC 2014ISSN 2374-4375

Copyright © 2014 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--10 at a time--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

Michael Brein, aka 'The Travel Psychologist,' is an author, lecturer, travel storyteller, adven-turer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He regularly appears in newspapers, magazines, 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 Brein resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington. You may email Michael at michaelbrein@gmail.com.

No. 6 DEC 2014

Inside the Blue MosqueThe Hookah Lounge

My First DrunkThe Full Moon Party

A Most Unfortunate JourneyThe Candy StoreThe Restaurant

Things that Go Thump in the NightThe Drug Smuggler

Smuggling MarijuanaThe Opium Den

Magical, Mystical MarrakeshSnake Wine

Magic Jungle PotionGuest Contributor: Michael Wiese

The Travel Psychologist's TakeMother Ayahuasca

The TripJourneys to Inner SpaceSwimming with Dr. Leary

About the AuthorIn this Issue

Michael Brein, aka 'The Travel Psychologist,' is an author, lecturer, travel storyteller, adven-turer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He regularly appears in newspapers, magazines, 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 Brein resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington. You may email Michael at michaelbrein@gmail.com.

No. 6 DEC 2014

Inside the Blue MosqueThe Hookah Lounge

My First DrunkThe Full Moon Party

A Most Unfortunate JourneyThe Candy StoreThe Restaurant

Things that Go Thump in the NightThe Drug Smuggler

Smuggling MarijuanaThe Opium Den

Magical, Mystical MarrakeshSnake Wine

Magic Jungle PotionGuest Contributor: Michael Wiese

The Travel Psychologist's TakeMother Ayahuasca

The TripJourneys to Inner SpaceSwimming with Dr. Leary

Introduction to this Issue

The December issue samples 'drug tourism'--the quest to achieve the sorts of brain-states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditating, cogitating, experimenting, exploring, or seeking enlighten-ment and personal growth.

Such tales as Snake Wine, The Full Moon Party, and Confessions of a Stewardess, illustrate how travelers wander the world to experiment or explore by ingesting, injecting, imbibing, chewing, eating, snorting, and smok-ing a variety of drugs, substances, plants, and even 'me-dications', in order to morph from the normal, oft boring, mundane, ordinary, conscious waking-state into the brain-less or the super-conscious in the attempt to achieve va-rious mental states of being that range somewhere be-twixt and between the 'mindless' and the 'mindful'.

For more great travel stories of Ayahuasca and other such magical substances see page 9 in this issue.

It is one thing to dabble in a limited way with substances at home; it's another matter, altogether, to venture into a vast world of the exotic--a world that is a veritable 'candy store' of magical, mystical drugs and substances that are there for the taking.

Some travelers are lured to the hypothetical mysterious so-called 'blue' pill or the 'red' pill. They can not only choose one of these pills to satisfy their exploring, their inquisitiveness, their mental journeys piled on top of their

physical travel journeys--they can choose both, as well as a panoply of other substances.

But what are the consequences of 'doing' drugs and sub-stances in a foreign land? In one of our featured stories for this month, Snake Wine, our traveler toys dangerously with drinking, willy-nilly, a concoction of blood and venom of a deadly poisonous snake in a Taiwan night market.

And even worse, and unbelievably, in The Full Moon Party, our storyteller describes how a couple of hippies get in over their heads by spiking the drinks of two Span-ish policeman with LSD! How safe or sane is that?

Next, several of our stories describe how travelers seek out the jungles of South America (and also South Africa) in order to drink a horrid, vile tasting concoction--called "ayahuasca,"--perhaps throwing all caution to the wind and often throwing up violently in the process--for what?--evidently to engage with some sorts of unknown forces, energies, spirits, or entities, even, that seem to take over and 'intervene' in their bodies, minds, and spirits, pre-sumably on their behalf!

Acting in ways often contrary to good common sense, we have in this month’s issue a number of travelers who dare to taunt fate via taking unknown drugs and substances, often in the face of possible dangerous and disastrous consequences due to the unknowns involved in doing so.

All-in-all, you will also see some aspects of travel that you, yourself, may not ever have even considered before.

Introduction to this Issue

The December issue samples 'drug tourism'--the quest to achieve the sorts of brain-states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditating, cogitating, experimenting, exploring, or seeking enlighten-ment and personal growth.

Such tales as Snake Wine, The Full Moon Party, and Confessions of a Stewardess, illustrate how travelers wander the world to experiment or explore by ingesting, injecting, imbibing, chewing, eating, snorting, and smok-ing a variety of drugs, substances, plants, and even 'me-dications', in order to morph from the normal, oft boring, mundane, ordinary, conscious waking-state into the brain-less or the super-conscious in the attempt to achieve va-rious mental states of being that range somewhere be-twixt and between the 'mindless' and the 'mindful'.

For more great travel stories of Ayahuasca and other such magical substances see page 9 in this issue.

It is one thing to dabble in a limited way with substances at home; it's another matter, altogether, to venture into a vast world of the exotic--a world that is a veritable 'candy store' of magical, mystical drugs and substances that are there for the taking.

Some travelers are lured to the hypothetical mysterious so-called 'blue' pill or the 'red' pill. They can not only choose one of these pills to satisfy their exploring, their inquisitiveness, their mental journeys piled on top of their

physical travel journeys--they can choose both, as well as a panoply of other substances.

But what are the consequences of 'doing' drugs and sub-stances in a foreign land? In one of our featured stories for this month, Snake Wine, our traveler toys dangerously with drinking, willy-nilly, a concoction of blood and venom of a deadly poisonous snake in a Taiwan night market.

And even worse, and unbelievably, in The Full Moon Party, our storyteller describes how a couple of hippies get in over their heads by spiking the drinks of two Span-ish policeman with LSD! How safe or sane is that?

Next, several of our stories describe how travelers seek out the jungles of South America (and also South Africa) in order to drink a horrid, vile tasting concoction--called "ayahuasca,"--perhaps throwing all caution to the wind and often throwing up violently in the process--for what?--evidently to engage with some sorts of unknown forces, energies, spirits, or entities, even, that seem to take over and 'intervene' in their bodies, minds, and spirits, pre-sumably on their behalf!

Acting in ways often contrary to good common sense, we have in this month’s issue a number of travelers who dare to taunt fate via taking unknown drugs and substances, often in the face of possible dangerous and disastrous consequences due to the unknowns involved in doing so.

All-in-all, you will also see some aspects of travel that you, yourself, may not ever have even considered before.

And, once again, you will certainly experience vicariously those odd vagaries of travel-life that can await you and can suddenly appear just around the corner at about any turn along the way.

Winding up this month's issue is Michael Wiese, our guest contributor, an acclaimed author, filmmaker, and world traveler, who describes his own bouts with the wild, wacky, and mysterious world of 'Mother Ayahuasca'.

'Mother Ayahuasca'?

Coming Soon!

And, once again, you will certainly experience vicariously those odd vagaries of travel-life that can await you and can suddenly appear just around the corner at about any turn along the way.

Winding up this month's issue is Michael Wiese, our guest contributor, an acclaimed author, filmmaker, and world traveler, who describes his own bouts with the wild, wacky, and mysterious world of 'Mother Ayahuasca'.

'Mother Ayahuasca'?

Coming Soon!