What Were Your Strangest, Wackiest, Most Unusual Travel Assignments?

Most of us have at one point or another taken an assignment or two that've made us think, "I can't believe I'm doing this." Do share!

Permalink Reply by Stephen Hartshorne on September 9, 2009 at 3:51pm: For wacky, the Houston Art Car Parade is hard to beat:
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Permalink Reply by Karen Fawcett on October 29, 2009 at 8:38pm: I do recall an assignment where I stayed in a perfect hotel on a secluded island. It was going to be a wonderful article. Not only were the accommodations ideal but the kitchen turned out *** food. Here was the quintessential romantic destination. Then l I received the news the majority of the hotel had burned down including the property's kitchen. The reconstruction would take a year. My deadline was then -- and I had nothing to write. The experience was fabulous and I looked forward to returning to write the piece for the newspaper - that no longer has a travel section. Sigh. No problem. The hotel hasn't been rebuilt either.
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Permalink Reply by Jose Balido on October 29, 2009 at 9:43pm: Not a funny story, but certainly a sign of the times!

karen Fawcett said:
I do recall an assignment where I stayed in a perfect hotel on a secluded island. It was going to be a wonderful article. Not only were the accommodations ideal but the kitchen turned out *** food. Here was the quintessential romantic destination. Then l I received the news the majority of the hotel had burned down including the property's kitchen. The reconstruction would take a year. My deadline was then -- and I had nothing to write. The experience was fabulous and I looked forward to returning to write the piece for the newspaper - that no longer has a travel section. Sigh. No problem. The hotel hasn't been rebuilt either.
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Permalink Reply by Adriane Berg on January 14, 2010 at 6:40pm: Perhaps a little off point-but my first trip was wonderful-to Santa Fe-but I drink wine and champagne, so I ordered and paid for myself. My two co-press travelers took me aside and said that they only earn $35,000 a year, that because I paid for my drinks the CVB would get the idea that only food needed to be provided, and that I should never put my hand in my pocket again! I felt foolish-but since then, I wait and see what is appropriate-still it took the bloom off a novice's rose!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Roderick Eime on March 5, 2010 at 9:53pm: Figuring I could get an inside running and an exclusive (because no-one else was this nuts) I volunteered to do the Macau Skyjump just after it opened. Trussed up in superman suit, cables and guy wires, I stepped off the platform into thin air 235 metres above the pavement. My knees were still shaking hours later.; ▶ Reply to This

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