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35. I spent a week or two there in a tent with no
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 08:47 PM
Feb 2019

heat. It was cold like that we had to zip our mummy bag over our head to keep from getting frost bite.

port authority bus terminal, manhattan. unblock Feb 2019 #1
I remember at Scout Camp once I slept on a tarp under a stack of branches. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2019 #2
Funny, I was thinking about my own wilderness survival 'shelter' a few days ago - if it hadn't petronius Feb 2019 #123
In front of my TV, election night, November 8, 2016 TheCowsCameHome Feb 2019 #3
You were not alone. dewsgirl Feb 2019 #6
You're right. We all share THE WORST NIGHT EVER!!!! LAS14 Feb 2019 #12
And every night thereafter ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #13
Yep... Freedomofspeech Feb 2019 #38
That was a horrible night. I tried to sleep but then I'd get up badhair77 Feb 2019 #65
This message was self-deleted by its author Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #97
Not me - when they suddenly had trouble calling Pennsylvania, I flashed right back to Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #98
election nite ,2000 and the nite of the supreme ct ruling against gore . AllaN01Bear Feb 2019 #136
This Codifer Feb 2019 #139
four way tie! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 #4
In a blizzard in CO stranded at a tiny gas station / convenience store. The interstate was closed and RKP5637 Feb 2019 #5
I'd forotten about being stranded in a blizzard, but that happened to me, too. Liberty Belle Feb 2019 #84
Those storms are scary, and sometimes they become way more dangerous than predicted. Glad you RKP5637 Feb 2019 #89
Denver county jail. ZZenith Feb 2019 #7
Did you get a carton of milk and some bologna sandwiches at least? ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #14
Far and away the highlight. ZZenith Feb 2019 #32
I had to bail out a friend of mine ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #40
Boulder?!!! Ha! ZZenith Feb 2019 #54
Ok, it is luxury. I admit it ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #58
But you've gotten a massage and a guided meditation ZZenith Feb 2019 #60
LOL! ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #62
I know Boulder! ZZenith Feb 2019 #63
United 747 flight to Hong Kong. brokephibroke Feb 2019 #117
A Trump Property dlk Feb 2019 #8
Place called Club House Beach HopeAgain Feb 2019 #9
I loved the Everglades but the person I went with freaked out at all the mosquitos . I mean freaked! lunasun Feb 2019 #47
This message was self-deleted by its author Submariner Feb 2019 #10
Yours just might be the winner ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #15
Hilarious! red dog 1 Feb 2019 #23
Well yknow.... it does make a great story LOL Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #99
This message was self-deleted by its author Submariner Feb 2019 #108
There are two that are tied. LAS14 Feb 2019 #11
Oh, I hate snoring! Cannot abide it! ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #19
Between the rail cars, on the floor, in front of the men's toilet on a Eurrail train no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #16
Winter camping. It's horrible. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #17
Well, mine isn't as bad as ANY of these so far, but it was bad enough... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2019 #18
I too have had some youth hostel tales, but likewise more than one day in car on closed highway hlthe2b Feb 2019 #20
I know plenty of nice spots alongside the highways in our state ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #42
In the holding room of a mental health facility easttexaslefty Feb 2019 #21
Bathtub in a hotel JuJuYoshida Feb 2019 #22
I have three "Worst Places" red dog 1 Feb 2019 #24
In a cheap hotel in Mitchell's Bay Ontario, Canada. louis-t Feb 2019 #25
Wow, you just brought back a memory, same thing, northwest WA state. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2019 #26
I have another story about a night spent at DT ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #43
Army reception center Frankfurt Germany. Arrived doc03 Feb 2019 #27
My Wife likes to remind me.... Turbineguy Feb 2019 #28
All I can say is I was in college, she insisted on driving and I should have known better. dameatball Feb 2019 #29
In the aisle of a German sleeper train. I had bought a ticket for a berth but fierywoman Feb 2019 #30
A Bradley Fighting Vehicle Grafenwohr Germany. 1 degree. 10 nights underpants Feb 2019 #31
I spent a week or two there in a tent with no doc03 Feb 2019 #35
I still get symptoms of frost bite underpants Feb 2019 #48
3 winters in Korea GP6971 Feb 2019 #55
Korean war veterans always talk about how cold it was there. I spent two winters in Germany doc03 Feb 2019 #70
a friend of mine had to go to Korea PupCamo Feb 2019 #74
Winters in Korea GP6971 Feb 2019 #76
I was house sitting once. I had a dog and cat and a house to look after. I went out the side door applegrove Feb 2019 #33
a "hotel" gopiscrap Feb 2019 #34
Bates Motel redstateblues Feb 2019 #36
Round trip train rides through North Dakota, not Amtracks fault. Delmette2.0 Feb 2019 #37
Took a midnight train to Georgia last Thanksgiving underpants Feb 2019 #49
It seems like as soon as you almost fall asleep the whistle goes off. Delmette2.0 Feb 2019 #56
On the concrete stairway to an underground bathroom in Quebec City during Winter Carnival jpak Feb 2019 #39
I can't touch any of those, but grumpyduck Feb 2019 #41
My ex's place crazycatlady Feb 2019 #44
Not counting jail... captain queeg Feb 2019 #45
What?? You missed the black fly season in MN ? You should have gone back for that experience ! lunasun Feb 2019 #52
In a tent in the Sinai Desert over Christmas jrandom421 Feb 2019 #46
Most nights with the ex husband. Freedomofspeech Feb 2019 #50
oy. Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #57
My two favorite letters... Freedomofspeech Feb 2019 #61
My family home bitterross Feb 2019 #51
So sorry Rebl2 Feb 2019 #69
several options enlisted in the Army qazplm135 Feb 2019 #53
the driver's seat of my brother's 1940 something Ford pickup.. Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #59
My home, 11/08/16. BHDem53 Feb 2019 #64
Probably at some campground when I was much younger sakabatou Feb 2019 #66
When I Rebl2 Feb 2019 #67
Boot camp rickford66 Feb 2019 #68
Any night during the months when I was going through my divorce... CaptainTruth Feb 2019 #71
Wow glad you are here to post . Sleeping with both eyes open no doubt lunasun Feb 2019 #73
And here I thought the night my wife told me she wanted a divorce was the worst ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #79
I also spent a miserable night in rain at a rest stop Good Times ! I thought about my worse lunasun Feb 2019 #72
In the Grunewald surrounded by wild boars. erlewyne Feb 2019 #75
In the back seat of ( I think it was a Plymouth ) Doreen Feb 2019 #77
Mount Darwin Wolf Frankula Feb 2019 #78
The Holiday Inn in Miami. On my honeymoon. Aristus Feb 2019 #80
You summed up Miami perfectly. bluecollar2 Feb 2019 #92
Dirty, shabby room in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italia, elleng Feb 2019 #81
A cheap motel somewhere in Eastern Maryland. SeattleVet Feb 2019 #82
Back of a pickup in the rain. Liberty Belle Feb 2019 #83
In a Best Western in Monticello NY in the Catskills Danmel Feb 2019 #85
And on the lighter side, an acquaintance once told me his tale Liberty Belle Feb 2019 #86
Sharing a sleeping bag with a bear. nt akraven Feb 2019 #87
In Rio during Carneval. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #88
A Days Inn in Jacksonville shenmue Feb 2019 #90
So many to choose from. panader0 Feb 2019 #91
Depends on how one defines "worst" PufPuf23 Feb 2019 #93
Abu Ghraib Prison shadowmayor Feb 2019 #94
ughhhh.... the stuff of nightmares I would imagine.... Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #96
OK, you win. mahina Feb 2019 #111
Jail, 1991 Faygo Kid Feb 2019 #95
Yep. happybird Feb 2019 #101
Overnighting in a Snow Cave after Greyhound Bus broke down in middle of Nowhere arthurgoodwin Feb 2019 #100
A pension in Heidelberg summer 1970. Filthy, didn't take shoes off, lay on clothes over bedding bobbieinok Feb 2019 #102
This absolutely disgusting hotel in Kissimmee tymorial Feb 2019 #103
A motel 6 on a mattress full of straw TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #104
Other than November 8-9, 2016 -- Motel 6, Manhattan, KS. lastlib Feb 2019 #105
I think it was in Lafayette, LA. The hotel was nice enough, prob. a Super 8 japple Feb 2019 #106
That happened to us once, traveling with my wife and kids. hunter Feb 2019 #116
Back seat of a car on 12 st NE DC bottomofthehill Feb 2019 #107
The Tijuana holding jail Recursion Feb 2019 #109
Did someone say Tijuana jail? Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #112
Two places Lithos Feb 2019 #110
A few tales to relate. 3catwoman3 Feb 2019 #113
Worst nights Reinersville Oh trade days Marthe48 Feb 2019 #114
In a truck CCExile Feb 2019 #115
Some hotel in NW Washington MissB Feb 2019 #118
I don't tell my most sordid PTSD stories here, but I know why my kids hate camping. hunter Feb 2019 #119
LA County jail... Heartstrings Feb 2019 #120
War Zone D in Vietnam The Wizard Feb 2019 #121
On my family room sofa the night of LibDemAlways Feb 2019 #122
Probably one of those high-rise multi-hostel buildings in Hong Kong - comfortable in its way, petronius Feb 2019 #124
On the Griffiss AFB flightline in January 1984 jmowreader Feb 2019 #125
Dam Air Force TEB Feb 2019 #128
A hotel in Maine TEB Feb 2019 #126
A grungy hotel near Victoria Station, London SharonClark Feb 2019 #127
lived in a car a couple times....lived in a camper shell in someone's yard once... TalenaGor Feb 2019 #129
In the rafters at a ski lodge in Vermont after dancing with a sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #130
My parents' "posada" at there Florida island retirement dream home...... fNord Feb 2019 #131
26 hours in Johnson County Jail (Texas) rickyhall Feb 2019 #132
I was joking about the Grunewald (Post #75) erlewyne Feb 2019 #133
In a burned out car in England. zanana1 Feb 2019 #134
Sharing a very small tent with two other people while camping in the woods. IrishEyes Feb 2019 #135
At my parents' house in L.A. the night my dad died. VOX Feb 2019 #137
In a tent on a beach outside Houston lillypaddle Feb 2019 #138
A bus station in Madrid, Spain. SKKY Feb 2019 #140
Drunk and locked out of my hotel in Ireland lanlady Feb 2019 #141
Camp Carson, Colorado DallasNE Feb 2019 #142
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