Does Your Meter Work?!

by Jim Soliski

Does Your Meter Work?! is the first question that experienced travelers ask of unregulated taxi drivers in foreign lands; it’s also a chronicle of fascinating experiences by veteran travel writer Jim Soliski. Does Your Meter Work?! is a crazy-quilted paper-back anthology of Oriental and Occidental wanderings that have been published in fifty-some publications around the world including The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Examiner, The St. Petersburg Times, Travelers’ Tales, Outpost Magazine, and most of Canada’s major papers. You can read a day at the Philippine cock-fights; debating New York’s delis before white-water rafting through the Nepali Himalayas; diving for cover from time-share sales rascals in Mexico; galumphing over South-East Asia’s highest peak in Borneo; falling in love but having to go; assault rifles up the snoot in Sri Lanka; hitchhiking under a guardian angel's wing from Brunei to Bangkok; and immersing a foreigner’s heart and body in the ineluctable mysteries of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. All told, a menu of 44 stories. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll read some stuff you didn’t want to know, and when you’re done, you’ll think, "Whew…that was quite a ride."

Genres: Travel

216 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2004