7,000 FEET - Why are they sending us on a plane to an airport that just nearly missed being struck by a tornado and has no outbound flights? A travel diary.
ALASKA – You must never turn your back on a grizzly. Every time the bear looked at the ground, I edged downward on spongy tundra, never looking behind me for a foothold.
If planned and executed properly, chasing the storm gives you the benefit of taking a dream vacation and helping to revive a local economy. Not a bad proposition.
The crew talked about the rogue wave hitting the ship, but we heard no details. Not a word about the injured passengers. They had disappeared. Forever. A reader story.
BEIJING, China – In this final chapter, our hero spends an ungodly amount of time in a lead vest, picks up a translator, gets paranoid, and makes it home in one piece.
BEIJING, China – It's getting late, too late. Ling has left us. It is 3 a.m. and Peter has an 8 a.m. flight. I am signing my bar bill when someone yanks the pen out of my hand. Lucy is back.
BEIJING, China – One local guide, two tourists, and thousands of fake designer watches. Just a foreshadowing of the shennanigans (bribery, blackmail, corruption) to come.
FLORENCE, Italy – And now, the Travel Fiasco Storyteller Contest winners! First up, an American girl who meets a handsome Italian and, well, doesn't have the night she wants.
