» The Contest: Travel Hell - Sometimes Getting There Sucks

Jan 22 2008

The Contest: Travel Hell - Sometimes Getting There Sucks

Published by Ree at 10:27 am under TravHell The Contest, Travel

Here we go y’all.

After all my whining and moaning and bitching and crying about travel fiascoes in months past, Laurel and Sonia and I thought we should come up with a contest. A contest in which three of you (3! Damn. Wish I could enter.) will get rewarded for surviving a really effed-up travel experience.

Here are the rules:

Blog about your absolute worst travel experience (train? plane? automobile? camel-back? the mode of transportation doesn’t matter - the sheer horror of it all does. Or the funny. We like to laugh.)
Link to us (Sass Attack - And the Pursuit of Happiness - The Hotfessional) and display the badge above (with a link to this contest*)
Get your entry written and posted before February 3rd, 2008.
Email us at TravHellContest@gmail.com with the link to your post.

We’ll judge 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for Excellent Prizes. (Y’know, there was Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure - hence, Excellent Prizes.)

The Excellent Prizes (something to wear, something to display, something to keep you sane) will be announced soon after February 3rd (y’all, that’s the deadline, in case you missed it up top there).

*If you need the code to link the badge, send an email to the TravelHell Contest address. We’ll get you the code.

—- Because, sometimes getting there sucks. —-

27 Responses to “The Contest: Travel Hell - Sometimes Getting There Sucks”

# Veronicaon 22 Jan 2008 at 11:03 am

Sounds good. I don’t have any travel hells to blog about though, so I will just be a spectator
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# Miz Son 22 Jan 2008 at 11:25 am

I’m looking forward to reading the entries. Lucky me, I have nothing to contribute.

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# suburbancorrespondenton 22 Jan 2008 at 3:06 pm

I never go anywhere. Bummer. Maybe I’ll take a trip just to be able to enter.

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# Melissaon 22 Jan 2008 at 3:08 pm

Nice! Now it’s a matter of which journey was the worst…
Glad you’re doing better;)

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# Nicon 22 Jan 2008 at 4:31 pm

I would love to enter into this, but it just seems like tempting fate when I have several more cross-country trips in the next month.

Let’s just say that my last flight was held up because the incoming aircraft first had an equipment issue and needed to wait for the next plane, then had a fuel truck break down right behind it as it was going to begin backing away, then at the arrival airport the jetway broke so people were stuck on the plane, then we boarded, and then the jetway broke again when trying to move away from the plane.

And I wish I could tell the story of the time I spent 16 hours in PHL, including four sitting on a plane, to go absolutely nowhere. But again, tempting fate.

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# Candyon 22 Jan 2008 at 5:33 pm

Not only do I have a story, it is already up and posted.

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# witchypooon 22 Jan 2008 at 6:31 pm

I’ve got a story. Pure travel hell.

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# Laurelon 22 Jan 2008 at 6:59 pm

Hooray, bad travel!

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# Nancyon 22 Jan 2008 at 9:21 pm

I’ve got one, I’ll be sure to post =)

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# Heidion 22 Jan 2008 at 10:17 pm

Oooohhhhh…I’ve got one. Even though Candy’s running away with it all, I do have one. I will be making an entry, ladies. Mark my words!

Heidi
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# Britton 22 Jan 2008 at 11:26 pm

I’ll have to think about this. I’ve got to have a crappy travel story in my history somewhere. Ok, I know I have many, but I have to pick the crappiest. Hmmm…….

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# Liz J in Illinoison 23 Jan 2008 at 1:40 am

I’ve got a travel story that is more funny that it is hell - - I may post it just for chuckles . . .
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# zoeon 23 Jan 2008 at 1:44 am

i have several from traveling with the terrorists. i best get working on it!

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# Kelleyon 23 Jan 2008 at 10:28 am

Oh my lovely I have got one for ya. Hope I remember to do it though!

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# Cherion 23 Jan 2008 at 4:06 pm

I haven’t any travel stories (well, not ones that anyone would *want* to read) But it should be interesting to see what everyone else has to report.
# Lindzon 24 Jan 2008 at 1:58 am

Oooh! I have soooo many good ones. One involves a kidney stone and iceland.

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# flutterbyon 24 Jan 2008 at 3:53 am

Oh Holy Mother of GOD. I have enough “material” from calls to Qwest *service* techs that I could write a freaking encyclopedia length novel. Hub usually tries to grab the wheel if we are out and I am driving and see a Qwest truck because he is fully convinced I am going to run them down.
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# barbettion 31 Jan 2008 at 4:05 am

I am totally ALL about this. Good thing I have this weekend.

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# Dawnon 03 Feb 2008 at 3:10 am

I totally suck. I knew I was supposed to do this and I still didn’t do it… le sigh.

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# Smooch Datingon 23 Jun 2008 at 6:37 pm

My worst travel was on greyhound bus that broke down on my way to Atlantic City. I sat there on the bus for over 6 hours. No air conditioning and the smell of the public toilet on the bus was outrageous. That was last year and I have not rode a greyhound since. The bus driver had a nasty attitude too. You have some many people who really hate their jobs. And he is one of them.