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Tell us your most horrible travel moment, and win a copy of Chuck Thompson's "Smile When Yoy're Lying"
In case you missed it, Abha recently interviewed Chuck Thompson, author of the new book, Smile When You're Lying, and we're running a contest to give away some free copies. It's really easy to enter to win -- just tell us the worst thing that's happened to you while traveling in the comment section of the interview. You don't need to write a novel or anything, but the funnier/more outrageous, the better! We've already got some good stories from our readers. Here's one:On being sick in India, Eva writes, "I was so out of it, I genuinely thought I was dying. For two days I just lay in my bed and cried, and then got mad at myself for wasting bodily fluids on tears when I was clearly already dying of dehydration, and then I cried even harder. I even called my dad to say goodbye!"
Fun!
Let the world hear your worst travel moment, and you just may win a copy of Smile When You're Lying! (Remember: don't leave the comment on this post! Go here instead.)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Scott Jan 3rd 2008 4:37PM
After commenting on the "which place would I never go back to post", I thought I'd post it here too...
When we first got married, we didn't have much money, and so wanted to get the most value out of our traveling. One day I saw a deal to Moorea, and I thought, "wow, Tahiti! that sounds exotic"! So off we went and stayed at a time share there.
Well it rained ALL WEEK LONG! Not just a little bit, not just for a short amount of time, but HARD and ALL THE TIME! And there's nothing to do on the island anyway, except snorkel, which we couldn't do because the water was so murky from the rain. There weren't any real shops on the island, no movie theaters, TV in our room - nothing that you could go inside and entertain yourself. So we read, and did a lot of other things that newly married couples do to entertain themselves.
And the food was all expensive, french food. It was good, but not very reasonable in price, and every day it was pretty much the same thing.
By far our worst trip ever...
andrea Jan 4th 2008 3:46PM
I think it must be that moment, waiting for takeoff on a Tarom flight to Bucharest, when I decided to pull down the blind on the window - and the whole of the window fell out.
Maybe.
Actually, when I think about it, my worst EVER travel moment came about thirty seconds later when I complained to a member of staff. And they offered me an upgrade to first class.
I don't really care whether I die in coach or in first. I'd just really, really like to reach my destination alive.
(Obviously, something was eventually done about the window. Before we took off. Thank God.)