What is your worst travel experience?

@neojan (83)
Philippines
June 7, 2009 11:02am CST
Recently my officemates and i went to a vacation together with our families. But before we arrive to our destination we experienced the worst ever tragedy we encountered. One of our officemate who has our budget lost his shoulder bag. We arrive in the next departure area with no money at all and never reached our destination...and went back crying and disappointed. How about you what is your worst travel experience?
3 responses
• United States
7 Jun 09
The worst travel experience I ever had was about two years ago when we were supposed to go to Cox's Bazar(Longest beach in the world.) My uncle and his wife and children were also going with us. Since we needed a big car, my uncle borrowed a SUV from his friend. Before we left, we went to the gas station to fill the car up. My uncle didn't know that the car on diesel so he filled the tank with petrol. After travelling for ten minutes, the car suddenly stopped. We spent an hour dragging the car to a garage. When we reached the garage, we had to wait an hour till the mechanics figured out what was wrong. After they figured out what was wrong, it took 8 hours to completely dry out a 50 liter tank. After drying it out, they filled the whole tank with diesel. Then, we started our journey and the trip that was meant to take 2 hours took 12 hours
@neojan (83)
• Philippines
7 Jun 09
Thanks for the sharing of your funny experience...you made me laugh
• United States
7 Jun 09
You're welcome. I laugh at it too whenever I think about it now
@rainmark (4302)
7 Jun 09
That's too bad and very disappointed indeed.Hope it will never happen to you again next time. Oh well in my case we never experience those sort of things, but speaking of the worst is spending time with my mum inlaw in one week. Oh she nags all the time wheww. Happy posting.
@neojan (83)
• Philippines
7 Jun 09
until now we keep takling about it and laughing about that funny story we had..Happy posting too!
@yeye888 (53)
• Philippines
7 Jun 09
My worst was when i went on a trip out of my province to venture on my own and practice my independence. My target destination was just an hour's drive from the port, but because i was new in the place (and probably because i have the its-my-first-time-here-and-i-dont-know-where-in-going look written all over my face), the tricycle driver decided to give me the ride of a lifetime and drove me to a barrio almost 3 hours away from where i was supposed to go. He then proceeded in charging me with a 5 hour worth of gas and left me in the middle of who knows where, lost and with only a few cents left in my pocket. I was only able to go home because a kindly farmer gave mea a ride to town in his trisikad. That was the end of my attempt at independence.
@neojan (83)
• Philippines
7 Jun 09
Lucky for you! No bodies get advantage of you being an "alien" in that place.