re: What is the worst place you have ever spent the night?

I was 17 or 18 years old. North LA. Middle of nowhere in an abandoned house. My dad just got this new hunting lease up there right before deer season. So I go up there during Xmas holidays to hunt for a few days. Stayed in the tent with a propane heater the 1st few nights so wasn't bad. 2nd to last night, it starts pouring raining and temperature dropped to the teens. Everything is wet in the tent, but heater was safe so wasn't horrible. Then the heater runs out and were screwed.

No car by the way. Had to park on other side of a river and take a boat across. So my Dad says there is an abandoned house in decent shape a mile away. We start hiking there and I'm beyond pissed. It's pretty much sleeting at this point. Get to the house, kick door down, and it's disgusting. An inch of dirt covers everything, smelt like death, snake skins all over the place, etc. But a fireplace. Start busting up whatever furniture and wood we find to get it going. Finally have a decent fire, but not doing much because there is holes all over the place in this house and the temp is in the teens and sleeting outside. Rats, squirrels, rodents, etc are running all over the place.

Didn't sleep. Both of us left that morning at dawn and never went back to that place. Shocked we didn't catch some type of disease or sickness from that place.

2nd worst was on a random shore in grand isle when motor busted on the boat in middle of summer. Heat, mosquitoes, and sand are a brutal combo with no shelter.

Cheb, Czech Republic

under an overpass in tuscaloosa ...

not particularly proud of that one ...

Staying at the Baytown Inn and Suites in Gulfport MS for my sons swim meet. Just overheard a strange conversation in the lobby. We made a late reservation and everywhere else was booked. This place is a dump but I had no idea until just now. Manager just told someone over the phone, "I know it is gross but you paid 2 dollars for the room. I can't leave the front desk I am the only one on duty. Call back Monday morning."

On a park bench in Patterson Park, Baltimore. Thank goodness I'm clean these days

When I was about 14, some friends and I were ran out this chicks house by her dad. Spent the night in a cow pasture behind her house with nothing but a sheet to protect us from the Mosquitos. My friend was scared to get another curfew ticket, so that's the reason we didn't walk the 2 miles back to my house. How dumb were we.

And tenting out on Fourchon beach in September. Mosquitos were fricking terrible! But we were drunk and tried to man up. Applied a half of can if off. That seem to help a little.

Jail...no doubt about it

A cheap motel near the Anchorage airport. It looked pretty rough but was cheap. Bad decision. The only thing on TV was porn, the walls were paper thin and smoke and noise poured through. Cops raided the room next to me at 1 AM. My door was pounded on several times but I wasn't opening up. Turned out to be a mecca for hookers and drug deals.

Hmm - Spenard Motel and it's still open - a review on Tripadvisor:

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hehe well me and my friends have been staying there for a week. its an awesome place for partying! the staff well some of them are cool once you get to know them. not far from the liquor store. thats a plus in my books! its not the best or cheapest but thats cool how they have all those movies but it sucks that they put two ridiculous pitiful looking turtles in the lobby. well id recommend this hotel for degenerates and younger adults

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1. Lost in the high Rockies.

2. Slumped over sterring wheel of my Dad's truck, passed out. Made it home, ran into planter, woke up when truck ran out of gas and heater quit.

3. Hotel in Cameron. Big sign in bathroom: "Do not clean fish in sink."

4. Hotel in Dalhart, Texas. Right next to feed lot. Big holes in walls so that the manure smell could waft in.

5. Bunkhouse at Charlie Hardison's in Fourchon.