What was your worst traveling experience?

Answer 1

My worst and one I will never forget. I was on an Amtrak train coming home to Penn Station from Maryland. The train had just pulled out of the Baltimore Maryland Station and I needed to go to the bathroom. I was close to the front of the car and I would have chosen to go to the lavoratory which was just a few feet ahead of me but since it was occupied, I went to the one in the car behind me. It was while I was in there, that all HELL BROKE LOOSE. The train started to shake violently and I was thrown back and forth. I had to get on my knees and hold on for dear life to the sink to stop myself from having my face cut. Meanwhile there were screams coming from the conductors. "Everybody Off the Train! Everybody Off the Train." When I opened the door, the car I had been in had uncoupled and all I saw was open air with a hand reaching out to me to help me get off the train. So much more to tell about but I will stop there. 14 people lost their lives in that incident when an amtrak train and a conrail train collided on January 4, 1987. It could have been an even greater disaster because the trains were just a few feet away from a bridge when the collision occurred. The ephipany to the story is that the person who was in the bathroom I was originally headed for was trapped inside for over 14 hours, I never found out whether she survived or not.
Edit: Here's a link to the incident in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase,_Maryland_rail_wreck

Answer 2

When I was little I used to go to this little Halloween festival in Pennsylvania. There was a tractor ride that took you along a trail in the woods to a pumpkin patch. The first time I went I wasn't warned about a guy dressed up as an ape jumping on the trailer. He scared the hell out of me and stayed on it for a few minutes. I was terrified for pretty much no reason. The next year I came back. As I was riding up to the little store in the car the same b*tch pounded on car window, the one I was sitting next to. By the way, if anybody has some tips on murdering somebody that works at a festival please let me know (I'm joking).

Answer 3

Can't say as we ever had a bad "traveling experience," but we did drive to California and crossed the Utah desert.

Let me tell you something. These people that talk about a "dry heat".....the heat has cooked their brains!

When it hits around 100º, that's just friggin' HOT!!!!!

We drove for a while through the desert with the windows open, CD blaring, at about 80 mph, and hot is just HOT.

We closed the windows and turned the A/C back on.

Answer 4

I've actually had my luggage lost before. That can be a pain and a half. Also, I've traveled with students and had a flight cancelled. I was stuck in Texas with 15 kids who were so upset because it was Father's Day and they could not get home to their families.

Answer 5

I lived in Cyprus, that grow to be hell, I by no potential want to bypass there back x.x Worst commute I had grow to be from uk to Poland by utilising settee... Oh. My.God. all and sundry grow to be ingesting. It smelled like, heck wtf grow to be that smell i've got have been given no thought, besides the indisputable fact that it grow to be hideous D:. the rest room spilled because of the fact the little ones could no longer carry it for 20 extra minutes until eventually we end at a station, they have been working up and down the placement, screaming. some 2 teenage ladies have been sitting in the back of me listening to their track out loud on their telephone (oh, what fncking outstanding manners!) and that i wanted to pee, BADLY and could no longer, for comprehensive 2 days on condition that we went onto the ferry because of the fact the places the place they have been struggling with the loos have been all very a ways into the woods, and woods in Poland are fckshit frightening D: on the some time past I had some fairly huge, 'fluffy' guy sitting next to me, and that i grow to be next to the window, he grow to be slumbering each and all of the time, and saved on falling on me and grow to be too heavy to push off XD however the final place I went grow to be probably Latvia. I enjoyed it there. I went there for summer time camp whilst i grow to be 7 ^_^

Answer 6

I had a flight once that was met with some heavy turbulence and was covered in food and drink it ruined my best Armani suit, I was on my way to a business meeting and was to be met at the airport by the clients!

Answer 7

any time I travel with a certain friend who gets so p.o.ed with the smallest delay. Sorry, no body cavity searches here.

Answer 8

When I got stranded in New York for a week during snow storms...

Answer 9

Greyhound bus...=)