Don't expect the St. Bernard to nurse you back to health.
Travel Health
“Look at it this way,” Ford Prefect had said, “Fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you’re going to die if you don’t. That way you stay ahead. The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.”
(“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” Douglas Adams)
How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad
The perils that face the traveler are many: natural disasters, disease, wild animals and falling guidebooks are all amongst the most common causes of death abroad but as we all ...
Malaria Travel Guide
Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.
Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.
In the 1960’s scientists were confident that malaria would soon be a ...
Guide to Dangerous Animals and Bugs for the Traveler
We may be at the top of the food chain thanks to our reversible thumbs but in hand to hand combat with a hyena the smart money isn’t on ...
Travel Stomach Problems
A happy stomach basically comes down to eating well. If not then you can have every kind of indigestion, stomach cramps and gas imaginable.
Most stomach problems are caused by overeating, ...
Diarrhea Guide for the Traveler
Just about every traveller who heads to the Third World ends up experiencing diarrhea. At first the whole subject is kind of embarrassing until you discover that in many countries ...
Travel Product Review - Schick Quattro Titanium Trimmer
Vogelsang Mountain High Life
Somewhere high in the mountains under a curtain of doom, I embarked on a journey of mythological proportions. This journey would prove to be a test of ...
Health Map - Diseases and Destinations
In an age where travelers research their destinations by internet rather than just going there, a new tool has come along to help us worry about what terrible diseases we’ll ...
Travel Product Review - How Sar Quick Lock
Some guy recently sent us the How Sar Quick Lock and a note reading: how’s our Quick Lock?. We decided to put it to the Road Junky review. This ...
Ten Reasons Not to Travel in Australia, the World's Most Dangerous Country
It’s been said very reasonably that ‘just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean everyone isn’t out to get you’ – well, for anyone with even a slight persecution complex, travel in ...
10 Countries Where You Don't Want to Go to Jail
The world can be a scary, dangerous place where the life of the traveler is threatened on all sides. There are killer diseases, muggers, natural disasters and terrible karaoke music ...
Travel to Mental Institutions Risking Mesothelioma
Drifting through a maze of dark foreboding hallways covered in giant plastic tarps, I struggled to breathe through my respirator as if I were some poor-man’s version of Darth Vader ...
Travel Product Review: Don't Bug Me! Patch
It was just what we needed for our trip to tropical Belize and Guatemala to ward off the throng of malaria/dengue infested mosquitoes we were bound to encounter. Somewhere buried ...
Online Travel Health Resources for the Hypochondriac
One of the worst things about traveling is getting sick and not knowing what’s wrong with you. Your guidebook only lists the obvious, major diseases, you don’t want to pay ...
Travel Product Review: The FlareSafe Device
Imagine my surprise to wake up one morning to find a DHL package addressed “Attention: Road Junky” sitting at my doorstep next to the daily newspaper.
Uh oh. They’ve ...
A-Z Travel Health Guide
Antibiotics – These drugs have saved millions of lives but should only be used when there’s no other alternative. Allied with the pharmaceutical mafia of the world, doctors push them ...
