Funny Travel Stories

These are apparently true stories from travel agencies, whether they are or not they are funny so I thought I would share them with you.

A nice lady just called. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:20am and got into Chicago at 8:33am.  I tried to explain that Michigan was an hour ahead of llinois, but she could not understand the concept of time zones. Finally I told her the plane went very fast, and she bought that!


A woman called and asked, "Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know who's luggage belongs to who?" I said, "No, why do you ask?" She replied, "Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said FAT, and I'm overweight, is there any connection?" After putting her on hold for a minute while I "looked into it" (I was actually laughing) I came back and explained the city code for Fresno is FAT, and that the airline was just putting a destination tag on her luggage.


A businessman called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded him he needed a visa. "Oh no I don't, I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those." I double checked and sure enough, his stay required a visa. When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted my American Express."

A woman called to make reservations, "I want to go from Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York" The agent was at a loss for words. Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the town?" "Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the customer. After some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Hippopotamus anywhere." The customer retorted, "Oh don't be silly. Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!" The agent scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo, do you?" "That's it! I knew it was a big animal!" A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii.  After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?" A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that is not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me. I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state." I got a call from a man who asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada?" I said, "No." He said "But they look so close on the map."

Looking Back...The Canadian Rockies

I was looking through pictures on my old computer last night and came across some of my favorites that I haven't seen for a while.  They were taken about 6 years ago when we went on a trip to see the Rockies.   I was 20 years old and had never been out of the province of Manitoba.  I was extremely excited, I'd never seen mountains before.  Where I'm from you can look out your window and literally see for miles, long , flat , boring miles.

After a 13 hour drive we reached Calgary, stopped off to get some food and were on our way to Banff.  I remember seeing the first glimpse of the mountains, so far in the distance they seemed small.

  We reached Banff and it was just as beautiful as I'd hoped.  We walked around town and visited the shops, it was so nice to come outside and see the mountains in the background.

We went to the gondolas and ascended up the huge mountain.

This was our view from the top.  Far from miles and miles of long, flat and boring.

As we were up at the top of the mountain looking around a storm was on it's way.  We luckily got back indoors before the downpour came.

That night we stayed in a beautiful log cabin up on the mountain.  It had a fireplace which my husband insisted on using even though it was the middle of summer. :)

The next morning we were off, heading further into the Rockies, we were just going to see where we ended up.  The further we got into the mountains I realized, the ones we were just on were nothing compared to the size of the ones we were driving on the side of.  It was almost like you were driving up in the clouds, they were so close.

As we drove through the mountains there were waterfalls everywhere, they were coming down the sides of the mountains right by the highway from the snow melting off the peaks.

We stopped off to see a few larger ones up close as well.

As we drove over and through the mountains you could see huge forest fires burning on the mountain across from us.  Definitely a sight to see.

We made it all the way to Vancouver to realized that it was august long weekend and there were no hotel rooms available anywhere.  That was pretty disappointing and we ended up having to sleep in the car.  This is the view from our "camping" spot.

On our way back home we stopped back at Calgary again to visit some family and then we were off on our long drive back home.

It was a great trip and I plan on going back someday when the kids are a bit older.  I can't imagine driving that far with a 2 year old and a 1 year old.  I highly suggest it to anyone who hasn't been, it's beautiful.