Michael Brein's Travel Adventures

“You wouldn't believe the incredible stories
people have told me about their travels.”

I have interviewed more than 1,500 world travelers and adventurers over the last three decades, collecting 1,000's of their best travel stories (including my own) onto nearly 500 cassettes. These tales contain the good, the bad and the truly horrible of what can and actually does happen to you when you travel overseas. You know, the U.S. State Department's travel advisories and warnings… These things DO actually happen to travelers. I know—I've interviewed them—I have their stories!

In interviewing travelers, I probe to explore the psychology behind their experiences. While the stories are often humorous, reflective and even mystical at times, many intriguing tales show how travelers deal with life threatening and often very dangerous experiences—and still manage to live to tell about them! Sad to say, some stories are about travelers who didn't make it.

More than 200 different travel themes weave their way throughout these stories, creating a psychology of travel — an endless mosaic of the true travel and adventure tales of not just a few people, but of many — in fact — ultimately 1,500 people! These tales are not travelogues; these are not the tales of tourists and how they spend their summer vacations—these are the true accounts of life, of the wonders of peak human experiences, of struggle—and in some cases—of the death of travelers!

Travel Stories Contributors to Date:
1,659 as of July 1, 2012

Share Your Travel Stories!

Come join us by our virtual African campfire and share some of your best travel stories with the rest of us! We want to hear your stories!

I'll reward you with a copy of the book in which your stories appear if we are able to use them. By the way, all contributions are anonymous (or credited to you, if you like), so please don't be afraid to share ANYTHING that you think might make the book irresistible.

Think of it! Someday, when you've just about forgotten all about it, you'll find a package in the mail box. You'll wonder, "What's this?" You'll open it up, and there in front of you will be a thick paperback book just chock full of the true travel tales of 1,500 world travelers and adventurers just like yourself! Oh yes, your stories will be there. And just when you least expect it, too, you'll stumble across your very own experiences and scarcely believe that these are actually yours! Oh, no! I won't tell you where they are; you'll have to read the book to discover them yourself. But there will be no stopping you—take it from me!

How to Submit Your Travel Stories:

Collecting the stories is more than half the fun!

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Typed: You can type or write legibly your travel stories and mail them to me.

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Please mail me a 4" by 6" photo of yourself for my album of travel story contributors. For more information about contributing travel stories please see FAQ

“TravelSense”

Excerpts from "TravelSense" by Cleve Twitchell of The Mail Tribune (Medford), Thursday, July 27, 1995: based on an interview with Michael Brein

Not everyone steps forward with a horror story. "People have also shared absolutely beautiful and wonderful experiences from once-in-a-lifetime romantic encounters to mystical experiences," says Brein.

Some of the tales are humorous.

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This book sounds like it's going to be terrific! I don't have travel stories to share, but I sure want to get a copy! Please notify me as soon as it's ready.

And now ...

After another drink or two at the bar, the magic begins—we’re seductively drawn to the flickering fingers of dancing flames of the most alluring camp fire we’ve ever seen! Under a black sky, peppered with more stars than we've ever imagined—this is the time—the perfect moment we've waited the whole day for—perhaps even a whole lifetime for. It is just now that we begin to rehash the day’s memorable myriad happenings—the elephant that nearly charged—the lion that came awfully close!—the fearsome, menacing buffalo that appeared out of nowhere! And like the proverbial “Kodak Moment”—the moment that simply MUST be seized—there is no more perfect a time than RIGHT NOW! to begin to share a few of our favorite Travel Tales!

Michael Brein's Travel Tales
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