Travel Writing Prompt
Share Stories of Your Favorite Travel Mishaps
Sometimes travel mistakes lead to new, exciting #unplannedadventures
It’s impossible to plan for every contingency when you are traveling. The best-laid plans can go awry no matter how much time and effort you invest to prepare. Most of the time, travel mishaps are inconvenient and have the potential of ruining your trip.
But sometimes, when you diverge off your plan and step boldly onto an unknown path, you find the best discoveries and biggest adventures. Moments like these, you can’t plan for, but they leave lasting memories.
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” — Dan Rather
An #unplannedadventure of my own
One of my fondest travel memories happened because my husband and I got lost in the woods while we were hiking trails in the Tennessee Mountains. At the time, he was not my husband. We were a new couple, about three months into our courtship. It was our first trip together and first hike. We thought we planned our hike well, taking a bottle of water each and a snack to get us through until lunch. A rookie mistake.
Before we started, we stopped at the hotel’s free breakfast to grab a couple of granola bars. I casually grabbed some bright oranges as an afterthought and shoved them in my backpack.
Our plan was to hike a couple of hours on the marked path; however, we somehow took a wrong turn on the trail and ended up lost in the woods. The day turned out to be hotter than we had expected and our morning hike stretched into a long, hot afternoon. Our bottles of water were quickly gone and we were both red-faced, tired, and thirsty. We stopped to get our bearings next to a rolling brook in a shady spot in the woods where a huge tree had fallen over the stream. We tightrope-walked to the middle of the tree and sat let our bare feet dangle into the cool water. That’s when I remembered the oranges. We each peeled an orange and sucked every bit of sweet juice from it. We shared a perfect, unplanned private moment in the woods. Those oranges were the sweetest we had ever tasted, and the conversation that ensued was just as sweet and sealed the deal. In that moment, I knew he was “the one.” That perfect memory with my husband is etched in on my heart, and it wouldn’t have ever happened had we not planned poorly and gotten lost.
We’ve had plenty of travel blunders since that day in the woods, but that one stands out as my favorite travel mistake.
Now it’s your turn. What’s your story?
What’s your favorite #unplannedadventure?
For our next writing prompt, we want to hear about your travel blunders that turned into wonderful memories. Share with us unplanned travel adventures that started out as mistakes but ended up being the best part of your trip.
Do you have a story of falling off your plan and into an adventure? Or do you have a memory that would not have happened if you had turned right instead of left?
Don’t forget to add at the end of the article the Hashtag #unplannedadventures so that we know it’s part of the writing prompt.
At the end of the two-week period, starting now, our editors will choose their favourite writing prompt response.
The writer who is chosen will win a priority publishing service for the next article being submitted, and the winning post will get a prime position on our Blog.
Winner of the Previous Prompt
And now, it’s time to reveal the winning post of the previous writing prompt on #localdelicacies and its winning writer.
We asked you to share with us your favorite tales of eating local delicacies and you guys delivered. Twelve writers submitted posts that we highly recommend you read.
The winning post from last week’s prompt is titled: Spain’s Cuisine is the Perfect Combination of Flavor, Elegance, and Simplicity by Luisa Chekrygin
“We will never forget the pulpo a la gallega (Galician octopus tapa) we ate at Cerveria Cervantes. We tried this dish in Madrid and Barcelona — the one from Cerveceria Cervantes was hands down the best.”
Congratulations to Luisa for winning this week’s writing prompt contest. Our five editors selected your post as the best submission response. You will receive priority publishing on your next submitted article and your current winning piece will receive a prime position on our Blog!
Below are the other writing prompt responses from the writers who submitted a piece to the contest:
Our previous travel writing prompts are still open. You can submit pieces even after the winner has been announced.
Thank you for reading. We hope you find interesting articles in this post and get inspired for future submissions. We are excited to read your work.
Your editors
Cody James Howell PhD (Raiden)/Glad Doggett/Anne Bonfert/Be Adventurer/Sh*t Happens — Lost Girl Travel
