While on vacation, My dad took my two-year old son on a short trip to one of the largest Native American Pow Wows in the country. It’s a large...
Category - Funny Travel Stories
How to Bravely Poop in Public While on Vacation
My precious daughter is a beautiful and kind 9-year-old. This gentle young soul would never do anything to hurt or dismay another...
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Farting in Las Vegas
No one can deny that the Las Vegas strip is a one of a kind of vacation. It is an endless plethora of stimulation that quickly...
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Sometimes You Should Just Turn Around
The drive from St. Louis to New York City was a trip from hell. I was moving to Manhattan to start a new job and was traveling...
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A Humorous Event While Camping in Utah
ot long ago, four of us (John, Dorian, Pete, and I) camped and hiked for a few days in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. We set up...
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My husband and I were visiting New Zealand. We decided to rent a car and go on a road trip to see the center of the island. God bless the Kiwis; they...
As we were driving on Interstate 76 in Ohio, we managed to hit a small piece of metal in the roadway and next thing we knew, we were hearing a tire...
by Mary Ann Simpkins, Forget the rules of the road when you cross into Mexico. “At the driving school, I asked for a book about driving laws...
Hung-over, my usual condition for flying, I climb out of the back seat of the hired car, wander through the automatic doors, drag myself through the...
My son and I were vacationing at Disney World. He was about nine at the time. It was our second day of vacation and we decided to go to Epcot for the...
Story: In 1923,when Kemal Ataturk established a republic in what was once part of the Ottoman Empire, the Pera Palas, truly one of the grand old...
As you fly over Queenstown, you could be forgiven for thinking you are about to enter a toy village. A veritable rainbow of hues from gold to yellow...
We arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport on Thai’s AirAsia without much incident. Everything seemed to be moving along well. Because I had...
It’s October 2001. The trip on the Blue Line was reassuringly, deceptively uneventful. A vague familiarity with subway riding – the T in...
Story: When my son was very young – under two years old, in fact, and still in diapers, my former husband and I decided to go to Corsica via...
Marshall Point Lighthouse is the first, and so far, only lighthouse I have had the pleasure of seeing in person. I have a love for lighthouses...
Some years ago, my former husband and I were in Florence just before Christmas. The city was beautifully decorated with strings of little lights, red...
Story: Prague in the 1970s I was invited to Prague as a travel writer in the 1970s on an inaugural Air Canada flight leaving from Montreal. My...
Quebec City’s Ice Hotel A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Quebec City is the only fortified city in Canada. It has all the atmosphere of an ancient...
Sitting in a French cafe, enjoying myself in the April sun, I was enjoying watching the busy people of Paris do their early morning thing. After a...