My Trip To Disney World

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I can still remember the day that I arrive to Miami in 2014, I was going to Orlando and specifically to Disney World. I was planning this travel with months in advance and finally my dream was coming true. I traveled with Christian, who was a friend and colleague from my job at that time, and we arrived to the Miami airport at 1 am. We would never guess what was going to happen after we picked up the car that we rented in AVIS Company. I was the designated driver and that was the first time that I was going to drive an automatic car. I started to sweat and feel nervous about it, but when I turned on the engine I knew that I could do it. We rented the car with a GPS device. We didn’t have roaming or internet access in the U.S. because our …show more content…

We were stopping almost in every gas station in our way to Orlando asking for instructions. It was 3 am and we were lost without GPS, we couldn’t talk to our family to say that we arrived to the U.S., and we were frightened about the idea of missing our hotel reservations because we probably couldn’t find the hotel. After two more hours of driving, I started to fell asleep. Christian was worried about it and he asked me to stopped and rest for a while. At that point I wasn’t nervous, I was trying to drive as fast as I could in order to arrive to Orlando soon. I didn’t hear Christian when unconsciously I closed my eyes. One minute later, we were very close to a truck; I felt asleep again. I stopped in the next gas station and both of us grabbed some food and …show more content…

At times I felt mad, guilty, and also insecure. I was the one who did the car reservation and now we were facing all this problems. Besides, Christian was always keeping faith and being positive about the experience; even when I got the wrong detour, or when instead of taking the exit 36 I took exit 35. We felt tired, hungry, and concerned all the way to Orlando, and after almost eight hours of driving, we finally arrived. Then, we tried to find the hotel and that took as three more hours. We were overexcited when we arrived to the hotel and finally we could take some rest in a comfortable place, call our families, and buy the tickets to the parks. We were pleased with the fact that we were not going to spend more hours in the car for that

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