Got to be when l got stranded in the desert in my rover.

There are so many because I travel a lot. Even yesterday I had one where I forgot to bring my laptop with me. i realised I when I'm nearly 100 kms ahead. I needed it for accessing important bills and other briefs. But I decided not to return and asked someone to bring it. Around 3 hours lost.

Last year I went to Europe for a month and accidentally signed out of my Nostr account while the physical backup was on another continent.

This year I went to Europe again for 3 weeks and my Bitcoin wallet got corrupted the first time I opened it (once again, with the physical backup on another continent).

I have done the same mistake twice, when renting a car using Booking.com they offer a full insurance, I paid it.

When pick up the car, the staff in from the car rental push me to buy another insurance or to block €1500 from my credit card, as my credit is way lower than that, the only option left, was to pay €300 for a proper insurance from the car rental company.

So, the insurance offered on booking is worthless.

The first time my wife and I took a cruise we made the mistake of flying in on the morning of departure. That seems reasonable, right?

The problem is that if anything goes wrong with your connecting flights, you can find yourself in a real pickle. Our departure was delayed, causing us to miss our connection. Fortunately, they got us on another in time, but they didn't get our luggage onto that flight.

We ended up getting on the cruise in time, but without any luggage.

My disaster? Being a travel agent during COVID. Try canceling 6 digits worth of travel arrangements for clients. It took 2 years! After 10 years in the business I threw in the preverbal towel.

I once was stuck in an airport in Peru for over 24 hours after a flight was canceled. I remember trying to sleep on a tile floor. It was rough. I really do not like flying. I like being in a plane. It's fun. But the whole process drives me nuts. I am not planning to travel much this way anymore.

Travelling to Israel, we arrived at our apartment in Tel Aviv at around midnight to find out that there were people inside. The owner had double booked!!

Here we are, with a sleepy 3yo in my arms, trying to find a hotel for the night. 😩

I don't really have many travel disasters. I have had a bunch of delayed flights. Missed 1/3 of a three day vacation to Bahamas years ago because someone tried to flush a diaper down the toilet on the flight before us and they had to get it out because there was only one bathroom on that plane and they can't fly without a functioning bathroom. By the time they got it cleared the flight crew was off duty and we had to wait for the next crew to come in. It ended up being a 10 hour delay and didn't leave until 6am the next morning. By the time we arrived we were so exhausted that we just slept the first day.

Forgetting to reserve one seat in a long multi-train voyage. All the train connections and reservations are lost… and other seats are already reserved unless you pay 4x more