Okay--we've had worst travel companions...worst destinations...how about dumbest remarks heard while traveling..here is one...

We went to Alaska in October one year..yes, it can get cold there. While milling about the local tourist shops, the lady behind us commented how cold it was..we said "yes ,but this is Alaska"..and she replied quite seriously "yes, but they show Alaska near Hawaii on the TV weather map!"...

In Gare du Nord, Paris, buying train tickets. A man in line bellowed, "Does anyone here speak American?" We cowered. No, he wasn't Steve Martin.

Oh, thanks for the laugh! This was tooooo much!

On a gardening show on HGTV yesterday, a woman was interviewing a gardner who had traveled extensively through Italy. She said, "I've never been to Italy."

He responded, "It has a very Italian feel."

On a cruise ship a passenger asked an officer "What time does the midnight buffet start?"

We had a tourist on the bus from Manhattan to NJ on Friday night who, while we were going through the Lincoln Tunnel, asked someone, "What road does this tunnel go under?"

An old friend of my brother's years ago asked him, "how far is it between mile markers?"

"Oh, there they are, let's go!" Made by Kelly Wrigglesworth (one of the last remaining contestants from the original Survivor show) as she evades security. On an E! travel show she hosts, they travel to Asia and are visiting one of the oldest Buddhist temples. She is dressed in a scarf that is twisted around her bust in a figure 8 from her neck, bare shoulders and back, and the rest of the "dress" just clings to her. Security asks them to leave citing no tv cameras are allowed. (I think they were just too polite to tell the group that they were too obnoxious.) Kelly and her cohorts think they are so clever in evading security, and prance around the temple area, thinking they are so cool as others stop to gawk at them. Sadly, Kelly doesn't realize the locals are watching "the white people" in horror, not appreciation! If Kelly had no class to realize this was most inappropriate, I would at least expect the show producers to know. Where are they from? One would never dream of that behaviour in the great cathedrals of Europe, or Mexico, or... I was disgusted.

Hey, Nina, that person may not have been as far off as you think. I think one of the funniest signs I ever saw was one outside a cruise ship dining room that said clearly, "The Midnight Buffet will begin at 11 PM."

While waiting in line at a ticket counter in a NC airport, there was a teenaged girl in front of me who was obviously part of a school group clustered nearby and altogether excited.

When the agent asked if she was carrying anything that didn't belong to her, she looked chagrined and answered in a very small, apologetic voice, "Well, I have my sister's sweater."

While driving past the Orange Bowl (which says "Orange Bowl" in huge letters on the outside) in Miami on a tour bus from a cruise - "Is that where they play the Orange Bowl?"

My fiance and I were dining at a really posh restaurant in Quebec last Fall - it was the perfect setting, we were drinking red wine, listening to romantic music in the background, enjoying the tranquility. Then, some big man with plaid pants, who might as well wore a sign saying "American, Here!" barged into the restaurant, held the door open, and yelled, "What kinda soup you got?" to the nearest waiter. I was so embarrassed for him, I wanted to crawl under the table.
When he found out they didn't serve lentil soup, he left!
And we wonder why we sometimes get such a bad rap in foreign countries.....

Kim, the Orange Bowl is actually played at Pro Player Stadium.

Driving south on I-65, a 17 year old female friend asked:

"How many wheels does an eighteen-wheeler have?"

Dale -
You're right, but this was years ago - before they moved it to Pro Player Stadium. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

At the Grand Canyon someone asked "Are the mule trains air-conditioned?" At Yellowstone it was "How often do they turn on the geysers?"

These are hysterical! I think my favorite is the geyser question - actually, that's quite sad.

Keep'em coming!

This is worth topping.

A friend of mine went into a shop in Georgia. When they heard his accent he explained that he came from London, England. At which point the shopkeeper said - 'Oh wow! Wait till you meet my assistant - he comes from really near you. Cameroon!' Hmmmmmmm....

After our first trip over to Hawaii in '89, we were riding in the rental return van at Honolulu Int Airport.

A guy, 50ish, struck up a convo with us and asked us if this was our first trip.
as it was hiss, too.

Told him yes and that we will be back.

Asked him how he liked it and he tilted his head back, shook it and told us "Other than the ocean, there's nothin' here we don't have in Wisconsin"!

I've never been to Wisconsin. Should I go now?