9 Holiday Travel Horror Stories You’ll Be Grateful You’re Not Telling

6. Frozen for the Holidays

Here’s another holiday experience from one of our readers. While driving from Iowa to Wisconsin to see family for the holidays in a Mazda RX-8, he soon learned that a compact sports car wasn’t suitable for driving in an ice storm.

After his car spun out several times on the freeway, he decided to book the last available room at a nearby hotel. But bad luck, the power went out. “There was no heat, so the temperature went down to freezing in my hotel room”. No eateries in the area were open either.

The weary traveler resumed the journey the following day, but it took him several more challenges, including a snow-blocked freeway exit, before arriving in Madison.

“What would normally be a three- or four-hour trip took me nearly a day and a half.”