Just got back no more than an hour ago from the longest, most confusing, most hilarious farce of a trip I ever took. Never.Ever. Take a trip without knowing the person in charge. Our Professor messed up on so many levels that I hard know where to begin. These are the facts.
1. We missed the bus that would bring us for FREE to the conference in Washington D.C.
2. We left late
3. The van we planned to rent was never picked up because the dealership closed at 6pm and we were LATE
4. Our Professor can NOT drive. How he got his license is beyond me, but he was swerving, making illegal turns, causing accidents almost to happen, switching lanes wihtout signals, breaking at inoppurtune times during heavy traffic, parking in a bus stop (illegal) to ask directions, making U-turns in a restricted areas, passing cars too closely, backing up at a red light, getting out of the car to speak with us at a stop sign. Shall I go on. I'm scratching my head in mystification that we were not pulled over by the police. We did however have plenty of car honking. We even got the finger.
5. In case you we wondering we were traveling in a Van behind his car, which we found even more dangerous then being in his vehicle. The van belonged to a student who allowed us to use his vehicle to get to D.C as long as our professor shelled out money for the gas.
6. We drove to D.C. and got lost for 2 hours (no exaggeration)
7. We could not find AU University
8.When we did find AU we had to wait an hour for info
9. We discovered that we were in the wrong city to go to the Hilton, we belonged in Alexandria--which we had already driven through and was 45 minutes of backtracking
10. We arrived at the Hilton at 1am only to experience confusion over rooms assignments
11. We didn't get to sleep until 3am
12. As a result we didn't have time to eat breakfast
13. We were late for the Cleo program
14. We were not able to sightsee
15. We got lost 3-4 times on the way back
So there is our horrible trip in a nutshell. Please be advised folks, buy a map and keep it close when traveling out of town.
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