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By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published July 8, 2007
Vacation fun Think that's an oxymoron? These three books will help you get your sense of humor back. Tiki Road Trip: A Guide to Tiki Culture in North America (Santa Monica Press) by James Teitelbaum is a wacky but well-researched handbook for finding fake stone heads, servers in sarongs and superior mai tais everywhere from Hawaii to (no kidding) Switzerland. The Three-Martini Family Vacation (Chronicle Books) by Christie Mellor, a sequel to the author's The Three-Martini Playdate, wraps common sense about traveling with kids in sly humor. Sample chapter title: Grandma's Visit: Don't Go to Any Trouble, Really, I'll Be Fine. Wish You Weren't Here! (Black Cat), edited by Cecil Kuhne, will make you laugh at essays about trips even worse than yours was. Writers include Mark Twain, Ludwig Bemelmans, Sarah Vowell, Tom Miller, P.J. O'Rourke and Pico Iyer.
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