Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It

“I have an idea for a self help-book,” I said. “Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.”

“But you can’t be bothered to write it, right?”

"Yoga for People..." is not a self-help book. It's a collection of travel essays that veer far off the traditional charted course for the genre. Really, they're more introspective ramblings about the meaning of life spliced in with strikingly accurate while always side-splittingly funny observations about the people he meets and situations he ends up in along the way. And in a weird karmic convergence, most of the essays are about places we've been recently or plan to visit on this trip: Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Cambodia, Koh Phangan in Thailand, Ubud in Bali... and of course the requisite commentary on Burning Man.

I particularly enjoyed the story "Miss Cambodia." Author Geoff Dyer nailed the feeling I had about the country when we visited in 2000. "An energetic torpor held sway," he writes. Plus he made me laugh out loud to the point where I had to stop reading the book by the pool because people were giving me funny looks. A must read for all bomads.

Many thanks to BBQ for the recommendation!