F E A T U R E S

Think I'll go eat worms. Annelids sacrifice their fannies for once-a-year sex, and Ryan Wells samples the resultant palolo harvest in Samoan Delicacy, Worm Debauchery.

Can this man's dignity be saved? Three Jobs in High Tech Hell. (If I get hit by a car, please don't let my parents see me like this....

D U M B - A S S  T R I P S

Attack of the Wi-Fi Girls, Part I - More than just cell phones and way beyond radio, tap the wireless Internet and the world is yours.

R E V I E W S

Our trusting Scottish friends kindly send us a copy of the video "Over... and Out - Deep Water Kayak Rescue Techniques but we accidentally let a naughty canoer review it.

Philip Johns learns some possibly-useful things about nose hairs in the mysterious and engaging book Trail of Feathers - In Search of the Birdmen of Peru.

L E T T E R S

This month's mail bin: Giant naked gold men, a letter from the Shi-Shi Trailhead Mistress, a hawk struts his stuff on the playground, and Disasters Preparedness interpreted for cynics.

T H E  C A S U A L  C O O K

Our favorite diet guru Dr. Atkins died mid-April, andwe miss him and his low-carb wisdom. He would approve, we're sure, of this wonderful recipe for a small rare prime rib for two people. Small and rare is hard to come by, roast beef wise but our own Casual Cook brings us a most clever trick to achieve this. Add roast asparagus (and roast potatoes if you don't fear the spud) and you have a nice spring dinner.

E D I T O R I A L

We're Still Getting Lost, So Thank You for Traveling

It's May, and this is our first issue of 2003. We considered many themes, like hot and cold, or war and peace, and finally settled on... settling. Maybe we're worn down. Maybe we've grown practical, or embarrassed by our perceived self-indulgence. And maybe we think settling is a good idea from time to time.

Your Editor has indulged in a meandering journey from Seattle to DC and Boston, trying to find herself and has unfortunately found her Inner Slacker. After many months of unsatisfactory sloth, she consulted with Marcia "The Muse" Tapp who tells her that she's been reading far too many self-help books and that perhaps the lesson in all this is to learn to settle. There's no shame in it. Okay, maybe a little, but we can live with it.

Lately at truck stops on the turnpikes all over the east coast, there are banners over the gas pumps with the weirdly sincere, "Thank you for Traveling." Um... You're welcome? I'm just buying gasoline and driving from place to place. It's a surprise that such a routine act would be viewed with such gratitude, but these days, it is. We know the travel industry has taken a beating these past months with everyone hunkering down due to perceived world unrest and very real economic woes. The down side is that world understanding is also taking a beating, but the up side is that travel has never been cheaper. This would be the summer to travel overseas since the crowds are smaller and according to a recent column by the travel guru Rick Steves, you can go to any crowded European city without a reservation and get a nice hotel for much less than you would have a few years ago, good news to those who really don't feel like dorm-digs at a hostel. I don't think I'd have had the luck I did getting a last minute cheap airfare and outrageously cheap hotel room recently in San Francisco if the providers had been anywhere near full.

So in an effort to recover from too much introspection, we bring you another super, outward-looking issue of Get Lost Magazine. We're back. We're geared for summer and working on future stories full of weirdness. And oh, yeah. Get out there and travel.