Family vacation misadventure stories aren't usually funny when it's you and your kids stuck at the airport short of diapers, or visiting Great Aunt Clarisse and her 1000 glass elephant collection that your toddler destroys. But honestly, there's hardly anything funnier than reading about someone else's horrid family vacation -- especially when it involves RV camping and poor dad's dreams of family togetherness.
Reporter T.J. Simers describes his family's well-planned but ill-conceived 2-week road trip in rented RV that culminated in a family reunion in Kentucky. The family couldn't figure out how to operate the thing (it was a beast with slide-outs) so weren't allowed to use either the toilet or the shower, and they all eventually succumbed to a stomach virus.
Part of the charm of a horrid family vacation story is that it makes one feel less annoyed when that trip to Disneyland or visit to the grandparents turns into the third circle of Hell, rather than the delightful interlude one hoped.
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