Road trip horror stories 71 Articles

by Jason R. Peters

Have you ever seen your car vanish? Now you see it, now you don't. I have a history of tough travel karma. My parents joked that I shouldn't drive more than fifty miles from home because inevitably, something went wrong...read more

by Jurgen Ankenbrand

Horror Story Road-Trip As we all should know, before going on a road trip it is absolutely essential to have ones car thoroughly checked out. Well, I did but that did not keep me from disaster deep in Mexico. I told th...read more

by Deb Franklin

It was a simpler time. The year, 1972. The place, somewhere on Cape Cod. The story...My husband, Rick and I were married in June 1972, due to circumstances of which we had no control over caused us to skip the honey...read more

by Kat Derrig

During the summer of 2001, I took a bus tour across Italy, France, Austria and Switzerland with a group of fellow students. It was an all-inclusive package: airfare, hotel, tours, and food, and all for a remarkably cheap p...read more

by Lee Norris

Turning off at the Tioga Pass. In the summer of 2006, when I was 60 years old, I cycled solo from Eugene Oregon down to Santa Barbara in southern California. The usual and natural route that cyclists follow from the Pa...read more

by Jill Valley

It was 1985 and I was reluctantly going on a college fraternity destination' dance from Washington State University in Pullman to a lodge in Priest Lake, Idaho. I've been on these trips before and while they're fun, they i...read more

by L Solimine

Planes, Trains, Rental Cars and at least one deranged murderer The title is not misleading. In 1997, my friend and I embarked on a trip to San Diego. While we expected the warm California sunshine, seeing an old frien...read more

by J P Whickson

It was an exciting day for my daughter, and yet sad for me. We were going to drive her, all her belongings, her 6 cats, a 110-pound dog and a 90-pound dog from Indiana to California. I vividly recall the date: Sept. 12, 20...read more

by Azmisty

The expensive donut that I never got to eat. This story isn't really about a donut, it is about my biggest blooper as a Tour Director. The year was 1986 and I was taking groups by Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle and then w...read more

by R. William Weiss

This nightmare of a road trip happened to me and it will help to illustrate some of the worst things that can happen and how you can avoid them on your next road trip. It was a sunny, early summer Saturday when my buddy...read more

by MsElzy

After 35 years of living in the same place, doing the same things, seeing the same people - I decided it was time to make a change. I moved from a small town outside of Detroit, MI to Atlanta, GA. What a jump! The move ...read more

by xvermonter

Winters can be very long if you live in Vermont especially if you don't ski or snowboard and hate cold weather. By October the days are short; by February spring is a dream, and by April winter looks endless. My husba...read more

by Lakesha Baltimore

When you travel there is always the fear of being stopped, but normally you don't have the feeling that you're about to be arrested as well. A so called friend and I were traveling form Little Rock, AR to Dallas TX for my...read more

by Shannon Shae

Adventure Travel Honduras - Tale of Horror Jungle Cures for the Desperate:Tincture of Dragon's Blood Flower Roatan Honduras is the place to scuba dive for "big" animals. The reputation for shark, dolphin and larg...read more

by Pam Thompson

It is possible that every road trip from Hell includes either in-laws or future in-laws. Mine included the latter. My then boyfriend of about six months invited me on his family's two week road trip/camping vacation th...read more

by Ray Anderson

Being a traveling musician I have had my share of bad road trips in the past. Some bad things are unavoidable and those are the worse road trips , in my opinion. If you plan everything to the smallest detail and have a gr...read more

by Jon Coe

I guess we should have left earlier? I guess we should have paid the balance on the car rental? I guess we should have not let our E Z Pass lapse?! Driving to Portland Maine, from Baltimore, seemed like an easy trip to ...read more

by Jensen Lax

When trying to get around indochina, one thing you may realise is that the odds of actually being able to end up where you wanted to go are so vanishingly tiny that you may as well hang the sense of it and just allow yours...read more

by Jennifer Eblin

I am a NASCAR obsessed nut, and I make no qualms about it. This year I had the chance to attend the August race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. It should have been simple; I planned to drive up on...read more

by Bo Razon

In the central Philippines lies an island called Siquijor. It is known as the Isle of Enchantment and Mystery and is one of the most beautiful in the 7,000-island chain. It is definitely a tropical paradise. Several spark...read more