My #VacayGoneCrayCray Vacation Story – Share Yours to Win $10,000!

Disclosure:  This post is sponsored by Choice Hotels in exchange for sharing this information and my opinion.

For whatever reason my family always has some kinda crazy thing happen to us while on vacation.  Like how we drove to Disney World three years in a row and each year we got a flat tire!  Crazy right?  Well that last flat tire really is a story that will always be fresh in my head and definitely our craziest (so far.)

It was May 2012 and it was my younger sister, my husband and my boys who were 3 and 5 years old.  My 3 year old had just gotten the handle of potty training but still had a little bladder.  Now when we drive from Chicago to Orlando, we drive straight through, no stops other than food and gas (we use the bathrooms only when we stop.)  It takes us 17 hours usually.  Well, my youngest kept saying he had to go pee and since I was afraid of him peeing in his car seat I kept pulling off at rest stops. He’d try to go and nothing would come out!  Well then he started crying say he had to really go.

For whatever reason I must have hit the gas to speed up so I could change lanes since the exit was coming up.  Well a cop clocked me going 91 mph in a 70 mph.  Now I don’t think I was really going 91 mph since I was exiting but I was an out of state driver and he was not cutting me a break.  So as he shinned his lights at me, I pulled off the exit ramp and went to the gas station right there.  My husband took the boys inside for the bathroom and I sat waiting for my ticket.  The officer was a jerk and gave me the ticket, no sympathy at all.  The ticket by the way cost $755, yes you read that right, because of some Super Speeder Law they have in Georgia.  If I was really speeding I wouldn’t complain but I really don’t think I was going 91 mph. Anyways, while my husband was inside taking my boys to the bathroom he decided to get them red slushies.  Any guesses where my story is going now?

So we were back on the road finally and about 5 miles down the road my son threw up the red slushie all all over the car.  It was like a crime scene in my back seats, which was also were our food and luggage was.  So I pull over on the shoulder to clean him and it up and I ran over something black which in turn popped my tire.  So there was my husband, emptying our packed luggage and double stroller onto a highway in Georgia to get to the spare tire under it all.  He put on the spare, we exited the highway and went to the nearest auto place which was basically in the middle of nowhere!  We got a full size used tire on and went on our way…again.

We had a great rest of the trip, but that was not the way I wanted to spend the beginning of our trip!

Well Choice Hotels International, one of the world’s largest hotel companies, is celebrating its 75th anniversery and wants to hear about those crazy vacation stories.  The #VacayGoneCrayCray Contest will award one lucky particpant a $10,000 grand prize for a vacation do-over!

“Every traveler has a story about a vacation or business trip that didn’t necessarily go according to plan,” said Robert McDowell, senior vice president, marketing and distribution of Choice Hotels. “This summer and in honor of our 75^th anniversary, we wanted to connect with our travelers in a fun and unexpected way. Through the #VacayGoneCrayCray contest, Choice Hotels can help turn those crazy misadventures back into positive memories.”

YouTube sensations Rhett & Link have signed on to help generate buzz surrounding the contest and will select the best of the worst trip expierences to reenact on their Good Mythical Morning Show, which airs every Thursday for millions of viewers.

How do you enter?

Submit your vacation misadventure via www.vacaygonecraycray.com or through the embedded video link on Rhett & Link’s YouTube channel. The first vacation misadventure will be reenacted by Rhett & Link on Thursday, July 17, 2014.

The contest entry deadline is August 27, 2014 at 11:59 PM, EST, and the potential winner will be announced September 4, 2014.

For Official Rules, including prize descriptions, and how to enter, visitwww.vacaygonecraycray.com

Do you have a crazy vacation story to share?