World Hum’s Most Read: September 2006
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.01.06 | 9:20 PM ET
Our 10 most popular stories posted last month:
1) Oprah Takes a Road Trip, Pumps Gas For First Time Since 1983
2) How to Use a Squat Toilet
3) Lost City of the Silk Road
4) “Getting Stoned With Savages”: The Adventures of Flip-Flop Man in Vanuatu and Fiji
5) The Art of Pool Crashing in Las Vegas
6) Happy Anniversary “On the Road”
7) Stephen Colbert’s New York City Travel Tips for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
8) Are Myanmar’s Ruins the Next Disney World?
9) Booking a U.S. Flight? Simply Call India.
10) The Winding Road to Joshua Tree
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
JJ 12.06.06 | 2:08 PM ET
Since I couldn’t actually comment on item number 2 (it was a dispatch, not a blog entry) I thought I’d pitch my two cents in here. An important detail left out of Frank Bures’ “How to Use a Squat Toilet” is that you may not necessarily be using your new skills in private. My first extended exposure to squat toilets (i’d encountered a couple of one-offs in the past) came during a trip to Beijing earlier this year. The squatting thing took adjustment, but not remotely as much as doing it in a stall without a door (most common, and frequently there clearly had been doors that had been removed for some reason) as cleaning staff walked by and not-so-subtly peered in to see how the foreigner was faring, or in the facilities like the public bathroom set up right across from Tienanmen Square, which was a big room with rows and rows of pits in the floor and no sources of privacy at all. Talk about performance anxiety…