THIS ONE TIME? IN HO CHI MINH CITY?

Travel to exotic locations is fascinating—to the person who went on the trip. To the rest of us? Yawn. Is the slide show over yet?

By Steve Burgess

The funniest thing happened today. I was shaving and my can of shave gel was almost out so I started to toss it. Then I realized it was the very can I bought a couple of summers ago on the day I arrived on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, only to discover that I had left my toiletries in Rome. So I had been forced to meander down the narrow shoulder of a twisting coastal road to a tiny little store run by an old lady who lived behind the store, then tiptoe back keeping my eyes peeled for buses swinging around those impossibly tight corners. Ah, what a can of shave gel it was.

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