Y’all! That was tough! How to pick losers, er winners when so many of you had absolutely sucktaculous travel stories! Well, it had to be done. After I spent most of the Super Bowl either live-twittering or reading these entries, only to wake up on Monday and find one I missed, Sonia, Laurel and I finally came to an agreement.

So, with no further ado:

1st place goes to Vanessa, she wins a Sunshine’s Designs tee in the color-combination of her choosing that says “lost my luggage”

2nd place is Emily Pie who receives a set of cute luggage tags compliments of Laurel

3rd place is Lavender Lily who gets a travel kit loaded with small size goodies so she doesn’t get thrown in jail for having lotion more than 1/18th of an ounce, compliments of Hotfessional.

Congratulations Winners!!!!!

Ladies, we’ll be in touch to get all of your details in order to get your prizes to you.

—- May you never have holes in your socks while going through security. May your planes always leave on time, except, y’know, when they’re broken. And may all of your connecting flights be right next to your favorite take-out. —-

But not before a reminder! The Travhell Contest ends on February 3rd.

You’ve all asked for links to the stories. These are the links we’ve received as of 11 a.m. today

Candy and Bill’s Excellent Adventure in the Catskills

Deep Muck, Big Rake entered 2 stories (she wants us to feel twice as sorry for her)
— Nightmare in Norway
— A Day Late…

Bringing Home Beck finally made it

Mrs. Fancy Pants flies through Germany

Midwest Girl at Heart lays over in Phoenix

SchizoFrenetic goes down under

Vanessa moves

Playful Professional deals with Denver

Superpaige uses her time wisely and nearly goes insane

Writing in Wax studies abroad

Now, only Laurel, Sonia and I get to vote, but you, my friends, get to laugh, cry and/or cringe at these stories along with us. And if you haven’t yet entered, click here for the details.

—- If somehow, I’ve missed your story, accept my apologies and re-send your email to travhellcontest@gmail.com. Keeping up with blogolutions has made me a bit crazy this week. —-

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. —-