1. Schrödinger's Boarding Pass: Perpetually Unprepared-and Totally Comfortable with That-I Set Off for Vietnam, Tunisia, and Beyond
2. A Model Organism: In Which, Craving Culinary Adventure, I Eat My Way Across the World and Figure Out How to Handle the Consequences
3. Wandering Stars: In Which I Deal with the Inevitability of Loneliness and the Complicated Joys of Making Friends
4. Poor Me: How I Learned to Travel Frugally and Got the Best Job in the World-and Why I Gave It Up
5. The Best Policy: In Which I Try to Come Up with an Ethical Response to Developing-World Tragedies and My Own Role in Perpetuating Them
6. The Orient: On Learning, and Unlearning, How to Navigate a Messy World
7. Happy Families: How I Faced the Ultimate Horror- Traveling with My Family-and Survived to Tell the Tale
8. The Touron's Lament: On the Differences Between Tourists and Travelers, and Never Quite Knowing Whether You're One or the Other
9. Jiggety-Jog: On Leaving Home, Coming Home, and Seeking My Proper Place in the World