Travels With Alice, by Calvin Trillin

Very, very funny, in that dry, self-mocking way I love so much. I doubt Calvin Trillin is the original clueless man with a competent (and female) family, but he uses the theme well. I read this while walking to and from school over the course of a few weeks, and thought it was the perfect traveling companion, much as, I think, both Calvin and Alice Trillin would be.