> > Well, on the most memorable trips I've had, some or
> > many things went completely wrong, but I got through
> > it together with my company, and had a great time
> > after all. And afterwards, you have the memories of all
> > that went wrong, and you can laugh at it and say it
> > ended well after all.
>
> My greatest "things going wrong" trip was when I went to Samoa a few years ago. I thought I was being sent there to write an article about the country's first-ever Dive Tourism Festival. When I got there, it turned out that the Tourist Office person whose name I had been given was off sick, could not be contacted, and had not told anybody else I was coming.
> I spent a couple of days randomly walking around Apia while they tried to work out what to do with me. Late the next day, I was told, "It's all sorted out. You will be making your speech and presentation tomorrow morning at the festival opening." What? A speech? Huh?
> It wasn't until a couple of weeks later, when I was back home, that I found out what had happened. The CEO of a New Zealand company which makes dive gear had also planned on attending, but had cancelled at the last minute. Apparently the news hadn't reached Samoa, and when this New Zealander turned up at the Tourist Office they assumed I must be the person who was there to make a speech and presentation in front of the Minister of Tourism and assembled representatives of the dive industry.
> They had my name and the topic printed on the programme and everything. So what else could I do? I stayed up until 3 or 4 a.m. desperately writing a presentation about a topic I knew nothing whatsoever about, and I gave what has to be the least coherent speech in world history, and everyone was very polite and pretended they understood what I was talking about.
> Apart from that, it was a great trip, but that's sort of like saying that apart from the location the North Pole is a great tropical resort.
>
> Brunnen-"and I still had to write the article, too"G

It sounds like the beginning of a very funny movie. Do you write screenplay?
Howard