Sand In My Bra And Other Misadventures
Funny Women Write From The Road

An anthology edited by Jen Leo, with a story by Suzanne Schlosberg

• Read Suzanne's story • See pictures of Suzanne's record-setting    performance • About the anthology • About Travelers' Tales • Buy it at Powell's or Amazon

Great In The Sack

Where will you find Suzanne Schlosberg hanging out with Ellen Degeneres, Anne Lamott, Sandra Tsing Loh and Sarah Vowell? On the pages of Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, an anthology of 28 gut-busting stories by women whose trips went comically awry. Or, actually, in Suzanne's case, trips that became comically lucrative. Click here to read Suzanne's story, "Great in the Sack," which originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times and was selected as the Travelers' Tales Editors' Choice for the week of February 14, 2003. Click here to read all about the book.

Among Suzanne's favorites: "Chador Etiquette," about a disastrous attempt to wear a cloak and head covering to a Kuwait shopping mall; "Panic, in Any Other Language," about an embarrassing incident in a chic Italian swimsuit boutique; and "Sand in my Bra," a seriously funny story about Floss Camp, a meat-packing truck called Antarctica, and other really strange goings-on at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

See Suzanne Run

You've read the story. Now see the pictures from Suzanne's record-setting performance in the Great American Sack Race, a competition in Yerington, Nevada, in which women must carry a 50-pound sack for 5 miles, "no straps, belts or buckles attached." The guys have to haul 100 pounds. Suzanne "shattered the women's record with a time of 50 minutes, 13 seconds, cutting nearly one minute off the old record," according to the Mason Valley News, "The Only Newspaper In The World That Gives A Damn About Yerington."

ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE? It is only at the starting line that Suzanne learns the sack race is actually a running competition - not the walking race she had trained for.

GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE . . . SOLD! Suzanne is stunned to learn that the sack race is not only an athletic competition but a gambling event in which the competitors are auctioned off.

IN THE BAG With one lap to go, Suzanne has a 30-second lead on Vicki, the women's defending champion.