This set of posts/letters home/panicked reports of wild animals/memoirs originally appeared on Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World in late 2003 and 2004.

To whet your appetite, here's the chart I compiled at the end of the various distances covered via various forms of transit... if you're not sure yet what a tuk-tuk or a travellator is, neither was I. To find out which one of them can easily get you killed, read on.