Near-death experiences in Zimbabwe, road trips to nowhere in Cuba. Media executive Todd Miller details how his family used humor to deal with disasters abroad.
A trip to Egypt — the first my brother and I took as adults with our parents — quickly went off the rails.
We considered going home, but instead we accelerated our visit to Kenya, the second destination on our itinerary. I will never forget the astonished reaction of the Kenya Airways staff when the four of us produced a small plastic bag of clothes as our sole check-in"luggage."A photo taken in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in 1999, which Todd Miller said was his family's first trip to Asia.
We were hanging on with white knuckles and clenched teeth as our raft navigated a nasty section called"Stairway to Heaven," which drops 30 feet over a 50-foot distance. Each jaunt required serious planning and scheduling to happen. I had a demanding corporate career at a major Hollywood studio that involved frequent business travel. So sometimes I piggybacked family trips on top of work trips; other times I forced a gap in an otherwise crowded calendar.The Millers riding horses in Guatemala."My parents live on a horse farm in Kentucky, and we often incorporated horseback riding into our travels," Miller told CNBC Travel.
Usually, I proposed trip ideas — and my parents were open to almost any adventure. Conversations typically went something like this:Parents: When are we going?"
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