Trips From Hell

Eleven unforgettable trips, fifty-something other stories, and a few lessons learned the hard way.

Some people travel to find themselves. Lorn Christal traveled to find out how many ways a trip can go wrong and then wrote them all down.

Trips from Hell is a humor essay collection covering eleven flagship travel disasters: Vegas, New York and Taiwan on 9/11, Sicily, Austria, Japan, Orlando, South Korea, Malaysia, and a Connecticut-to-Iowa-via-Dallas odyssey that should have been simple and was not. Around those eleven sit fifty-something more stories: an Amarillo Panhandle boyhood, fraternity and cheerleading chaos at West Texas State, a Dallas decade of Byron Nelson tournaments and Mucky Duck bar nights, a semiconductor career at SEMATECH, a few dreams and visitations, and family episodes ranging from Three-Mile Island to Terry Mick’s 1977 no-hitter against Palo Duro.

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