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Have you ever had a horrible travel experience? If so I would like to hear it!

Just recently, I had the worst travel experience in my entire 22 years of life. I got a severe cold during my last week in Taiwan. I was on my last day of antibiotics the day we were flying 12 hours to Cali. We got window seats and a woman who looked like she was in her 50s sat next to the aisle in our row. Since I was still sick, I was expected to drink lots of fluids which led to frequent trips to the bathroom. The second time my mom and I had to ask the lady sitting next to the aisle to move her legs so we could get out, she cursed at us. When the plane was flying smoothly in the sky, I finished my final round of antibiotics and we were soon presented with dinner. During dinner, we flew through the worst turbulence ever and my mom and I ended up vomiting. I was so sick that I had to puke a few more times in a plastic bag to the point where I started shaking. I think it was due to the antibiotics, dehydration, and inability to breathe through a stuffy nose because even the worst roller coasters don't make me puke. The lady next to us harshly refused to switch seats so we would have easier access to the bathroom, so my mom had no choice but to ask the stewardesses if there were other seats in the plane. There were no seats available so the stewardesses checked back with her every 10 minutes to make sure I was okay. Everytime we needed to throw away something, we would hand it over the mean lady that wouldn't let us go pee >:] Like bags full of vomit and snot filled tissues and stuff, haha so we got our revenge. But yeah...that was a horrible experience and I hope it never happens again X_X

I've been pretty lucky on my travels, esp after reading your experience gonk That must of seemed like the longest flight in history!

Only really negative I've had is in returning home and dealing with missed/delayed flights. There was one time when returning home from visiting my family, the airport I was flying into had some issue with their runway so it was closed for for a day while the fixed it. I spend the whole day at the airport waiting to see if I'd get on standby. It was 3 days before I got home.

I went to Port Aransas with my boyfriend at the time who is now currently my ex.

We were in a cramped RV with his obnoxious backwards a** redneck family, who never liked me to begin with. I managed to get a super terrible double ear infection and I couldn't hardly hear a thing, we also had to go without a shower for a few days because his dad was super retarded and forgot the shower cards at a gas station back in Houston. =,=
we finally got shower cards and I never heard my ex call my name because they were so infected and he took it as I was ignoring him.
I caught him texting nude pics to one of his ex's after I got done showering.

So I was stuck at the coast for two weeks, infected ears, rooming with a cheater and his crazy a** family, needless to say I slept in a tent on the beach avoiding everyone.

I was tempted to hitchhike back to north Texas. stare

Ha, I dunno, most my trips abroad are pleasant minus some of the usual obstacles like food poisoning, mugging or being stuck up against the plane wall because the person next to you is so large.

The one trip that was an entire disaster from beginning to end was probably one of my trips to Peru.

So it was a trip to see the house my grandfather grew up in. It requred 5 hours driving in a cramped car on a road on the side of a steep cliff. So getting there and back both involved issues of car sickness and almost being pushed off the cliff by semi trucks.

Once we get there, my uncle decided that we will be staying in the house while my grandfather stays in a nice hotel. The house is old and abondoned. It had no clean water, heating, or even beds! We slept on the dusty floors listening to the rats running around us. The showers had an insane rig that heated the water but also electrocutred you went you turned it off. We had to boil water to use for eating, drinking and brushing out teeth. I must have got some of the water in my mouth when I was showering.

Either that or the plague was upon us, because it started with the youngest and moved up to me and eventually the oldest of the children. Non stop pain in the stomach and just leaching out of both ends. It sounds gross and it was. It was like the end of times including weird church like house with stained glass. The trip was supposed to last two weeks. It ended up stopping at one. Between not eating, constant vomiting and electrocution, my uncle decided that my mother would probably hate him, if he let me or my brother die, so we went back.

That is by far the worst trip I have ever had. On the plus side, I like all my other trips in comparison. Its really helped me see the silver lining