content: Travels is a fascinating, truthful, revealing compilation of adventerous essays. It's humorous, silly, terrifying at times, and enlightening. Crichton takes his readers with him in all of his journeys - to places where most people have never been. It reveals what makes Crichton Crichton. The best part of this book is that he doesn't expect you to believe everything. If you think that the paranormal is hokey stuff, then fine, you can believe it is hokey stuff. You can be skeptical about it. I am. But he encourages his readers to experience things for themselves.